"In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a passion of conferring uniqueness on things or persons. A man who knows nothing of symbols is one of Dante's sluggards. This is why art mirrors itself in primitive rites or strong passions, seeking for symbols, revolving round the primitive taste for savagery, for what is irrational (blood and sex)."

-- Cesare Pavese

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“There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.”
“Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.”
“The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.”
“I always had a strong support system. My parents always supported the stuff that I did.”
“The inevitable consequence of love is the building of temples.”
“But when I was a kid, I would look at the paper next to the phone and I would think to myself, "I want to do that." So I started doing that. [doodling]”

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“In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All the works of human genius can be understood in the end to be products of a cascade of generate-and-test procedures that are, at bottom, algorithmic and mindless”
“A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.”

Source : "The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase". Book by Jacob Schuckers, 1874.

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