"Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. [Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.]"

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Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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“By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.”
“The descent is often as much (or more of) a challenge as the climb.”

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“The paintings usually start as abstracts and then I look at them and look at them, and like a Rorschach test, I try and see what it is.”

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“Stevie Wonder doing 'We Can Work It Out' by the Beatles is one of my favorite records of all time.”
“to tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when emotion interferes, when feeling makes its appearance, one is already much further involved that one realizes, and I have still not learnt how to prevent its appearance.”
“Cannabis is remarkably safe. Although not harmless, it is surely less toxic than most of the conventional medicines it could replace if it were legally available. Despite its use by millions of people over thousands of years, cannabis has never caused an overdose death.”
“The so-called miraculous powers of a great master are a natural accompaniment to his exact understanding of subtle laws that operate in the inner cosmos of consciousness.”
“The demands of following Christ will cost you everything. But you gain far more than you give up. You give up dirt for diamonds.”

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