"Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction."

-- Simone Weil

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“[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real.”
“Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.”
“I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception.”
“PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of an English magazine having received a letter pointing out the erroneous nature of his views and style, and signed "Perfection," promptly wrote at the foot of the letter: "I don't agree with you," and mailed it to Matthew Arnold.”
“The ways we miss our lives are life.”

Source : Randall Jarrell, Mary Jarrell (1985). “Randall Jarrell's letters: an autobiographical and literary selection”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
“Human life is difficult. But as this life is coming to an end, I consider myself lucky to have lived it.”
“When you finish college, you don't suddenly have thousands of dollars a year to spend elsewhere-in fact, you have to find a way to pay back your loans.”

Source : "Did Obama's speech play fast and loose with the facts?" by Deborah Charles, www.reuters.com. September 7, 2012.
“In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com

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