"My gift to you will be to take away your freedom of choice for a while. Freedom can be very unhealthy and unproductive. Instead, you'll have freedom from choice."

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Source : Amanda Filipacchi (2014). “Vapor: A Novel”, p.64, Open Road Media

Amanda Filipacchi

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“I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.”
“Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise.”
“Sometimes my life just don't make sense at all. The mountains looks so big and my faith just seems so small.”
“It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.”
“The only answer to the question of the meaning of life has to begin from the fact of our human finitude, of our vulnerability and our fallibility.”

Source : Simon Critchley, Carl Cederström, Todd Kesselman (2011). “Impossible Objects”, p.33, Polity
“People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.”
“If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.”
“Climbing is about pioneering new routes, exploring new ground, facing the unknown. Those hooked on climbing the normal routes on the eight-thousanders will miss all theat. They are wasting the best years of their climbing lives.”

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