"Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their worth."

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Source : Astra Taylor (2014). “The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age”, p.132, Macmillan

Astra Taylor

#Art Quotes #Mean Quotes #Essentials Quotes

“Beauty,--the fading rainbow's pride.”

Source : Fitz-Greene HALLECK (1847). “The Poetical Works of F. H. Now First Collected”, p.91
“I'm not the next anyone, I'm the first Maria Sharapova”
“The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount. Because before that I wasn't thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever. I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.”

Source : John Keble (1874). “The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays Throughout the Year”, p.185
“The things surrounding you in your home serve as subliminal reminders of you who are.”
“There is no surer means of calling down God's blessing upon the family than the daily recitation of the Rosary.”
“It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.”
“She took a deep breath, looking up at the ceiling for a long moment. A raindrop moved slowly down her neck; he watched as it turned down the slope of her breast to disappear inside the collar of her shirt. He was seriously contemplating becoming jealous of a droplet of water. Yorkshire was obviously damaging to his sanity.”

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