"Images have an advanced religion; they bury history."

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Source : Alfredo Jaar, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica (Barcelona, Spain), Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea (San Sebastián, Spain) (1998). “Let there be light: the Rwanda Project 1994-1998”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

Alfredo Jaar

“The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.”
“Everyone knows what their roots are, but you've got to explore everywhere. You've got to explore the sky too.”

Source : "Harry Styles will be like a Rolling Stone as he plays Mick Jagger in Exile on Main street movie" by Simon Keegan, www.mirror.co.uk. June 15, 2016.
“And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.”

Source : Ann Radcliffe (2015). “The Mysteries of Udolpho: Horror and Romance”, p.80, 谷月社
“I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.”
“Though we think intrinsic desires tend to be pretty stable, we do not think they imply anything like the amount of predictability in behavior that traditional virtue ethics requires for someone to have a one-word-in-English character trait such as "benevolence". Other things being equal, a person with more of a desire for other people's wellbeing will do more for other people's wellbeing, but things are almost never equal.”
“The configuration of the ocean-floor is of great interest to seismologists studying the movements of the Earth's crust. Oceanographers are also able to explain certain peculiarities of ocean currents by the contour of the ocean-bed. But enormous areas are still unexplored.”
“Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.”
“Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat.”

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