"The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance."

-- Albert Camus

#Army Quotes #Artist Quotes #Combat Quotes

“He who seeks eternity should look at the sky, he who seeks the moment, should look at the cloud.”
“Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the shock they give us when we first bear them is not of surprise but of recognition.”
“Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.”
“Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fable flower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of paradise--severed from its native root, it is only the touching memorial of a lost Eden; sad, while charming--beautiful, but dead.”
“The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.”

Source : George Catlin (2012). “Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians”, p.17, Courier Corporation
“The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses.”
“What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?”
“What nearly everybody in my life had misunderstood about Satanism was that it is not about ritual sacrifices, digging up graves and worshipping the devil. The devil doesn't exist. Satanism is about worshipping yourself, because you are responsible for your own good and evil.”

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