"You could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response. It's like there's a constant agreement within ourselves, a kind of mutual understanding between ourselves and the world."

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Peter Schjeldahl

#Agreement Quotes #Understanding Quotes #World Quotes

“After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.”
“I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage”
“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.”
“I don't think men talk as much as women, but when we have something on our minds we'll get it out.”
“A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.”
“Our national conservation effort must include the complete spectrum of resources: air, water, and land; fuels, energy, and minerals; soils, forests, and forage; fish and wildlife. Together they make up the world of nature which surrounds us- of the American heritage.”
“Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which supply good and beautiful results--the fragrance of celestial flowers--to the daily life of others.”
“In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.”

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