"Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry."

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Virginia Woolf

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“No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.”
“To salvage a society, it is necessary to aid, abet, raise and increase that state of mind. If you were to set up a perfect government out here which required the intervention of nobody, you would have destroyed the society. But by raising the individual ability of the persons in the society within the framework that they are able to view, raise their ability within the framework they are able to view, you would have achieved a marked advance for that society.”
“I wish I can meet my wife in the hereafter, but I don't think I will. I just cease to exist just as she has ceased to exist.”
“The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.”
“I feel like when you do things with such a small budget, it actually makes you be more creative... and allows you to concentrate more on the story and the characters. I think that there is something about dirty, gritty and raw filmmaking that makes it feel a little more natural and makes it easier to connect with the action.”
“Nudists have no fashion sense.”
“Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling . . .. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually-that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too- but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.”
“For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?”

Source : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”

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