"Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity."

-- Emile M. Cioran

#Despair Quotes #Tasks Quotes #Olympian Quotes

“Each color lives by its mysterious life.”

Source : Ankriktip, Abelia Serotina, Wassily Kandinsky (2016). “Wassily Kandinsky Artworks”, p.2, Book and Magazine
“As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays so skillfully with all the resources of relief, he blends so well the boldness of light with the modesty of shadow, that his sculptures please one, as much as the most charming etchings.”
“It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force”

Source : William Woodruff (1998). “A Concise History of the Modern World: 1500 to the Present”, p.1, Springer
“And when April like an over-lustful lover leaped upon the lush flanks of the Downs there would be yet another child in the wretched hut down on Nettle Flitch Field, where Meriam housed the fruits of her shame.”

Source : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“The structure of a software system provides the ecology in which code is born, matures, and dies. A well-designed habitat allows for the successful evolution of all the components needed in a software system.”
“Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.”
“Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.”

Source : Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts”
“As I get close to my election, I want to spend more time in my district and focus on my reelection.”

Source : "Another Dem to skip convention" by Scott Wong, www.politico.com. July 3, 2012.

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