"We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside."

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Source : "Expressionism". Book by Norbert Wolf and Uta Grosenick, p. 74, 2004.

Paula Modersohn-Becker

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“Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.”
“A flower touches everyone's heart.”
“It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.”

Source : "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, (p. 53), 1999.
“Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.”
“In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, whatâ€”apart from the eternal innocence of animalsâ€”offers an image of hope? A mother with a newborn child in her arms? The child may end up as a murderer or a murder victim, so that the hopeful image is a prefiguration of a pietÃ : a mother with her newly dead child on her lap.”

Source : Harry Mulisch, Paul Vincent (1997). “The Discovery of Heaven”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“I am very gender-fluid and feel more like I wake up every day sort of gender neutral.”
“A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.”
“I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.”

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