"Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become the shimmering but more enduring planetsâ€”a connotation of moon and tidesâ€”the association of water less subtle, as when driftwood pieces make up a proscenium to set off the dazzling white of sea foam and billowy cloud crystallized in a pipe of fancy."

-- Joseph Cornell

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“You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.”
“When we laugh we temporarily give ourselves over to the person who makes us laugh.”
“We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.”
“He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.”
“No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.”
“The free society does not guarantee virtue, any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a pursuit rendered all the more meaningful and profound because success is not guaranteed, it has to be won through personal striving.”
“Inconstancy is the child of satiety.”
“My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you let go of that, then it's possible to see God as a force, to connect to him or her spiritually.”

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