"Don't listen to the politicians, always look at the artists, they're the first to tell us where we're going."

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Source : Mark Mills (2008). “The Savage Garden”, p.188, Penguin

#Artist Quotes #Looks Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Anything short of cannibalism is just beating around the bush.”

Source : "Fictional character: Dr. Kurtz". "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death", www.imdb.com. 1989.
“It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.”
“When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.”
“As long as you like me the best. And you think Iâ€™m good-lookingâ€”sort of. Iâ€™m prepared to be annoyingly persistent.”
“The star shines for everyone in the world, but in reality, it itself is surrounded in darkness.”
“With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.”
“He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed in forms so pure and strong that it was capable of reordering the universe. He knew this, and that he lacked it, and yet as he stood in the courtyard of the Palazzo Venezia, watching diplomats file quietly out the gate, he was content, for he suspected that to command the profoundest love might in the end be far less beautiful a thing than to suffer its absence.”
“The hours that ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage.”

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