"Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions."

-- Wassily Kandinsky

#Mother Quotes #Art Quotes #Time Quotes

“She thought of the hardness and the coldness she had cultivated over those years and wondered if they were the mask she wore or if the mask had become her self. If the longing inside her for kindness, for warmth, for compassion, was the last seed of hope for her, she didn't know how to nurture it or if it could live.”
“While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.”
“There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.”

Source : James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.24
“Danger hides in beauty and beauty in danger.”

Source : Belva Plain (2010). “Crescent City”, p.507, Dell
“The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I'm out there on the basketball court.”
“So, tell me,â€ he whispers. â€œHow fast did you climb those fourteen stories?â€ Thomas makes a disapproving sound in his throat, but I break into a grin. Stormâ€™s past. Metias loves me again. â€œSix minutes,â€ I whisper back to my brother. â€œAnd forty-four seconds. How do you like that?â€ â€œThat must be some sort of record. Not that, you know, youâ€™re supposed to do it.”
“There yet remains but one concluding tale, And then this chronicle of mine is ended Fulfilled, the duty God ordained to me, A sinner. Not without purpose did the Lord Put me to witness much for many years And educate me in the love of books. One day some indefatigable monk Will find my conscientious, unsigned work; Like me, he will light up his ikon-lamp And, shaking from the scroll the age-old dust, He will transcribe these tales in all their truth.”
“In China, I witnessed forced abortions and forced sterilizations performed on women who were told that the children they were carrying were 'illegal'. I went with them when they were arrested and remained with them as they were subjected to mind-bending psychological torture. And I accompanied them as they went in tears to the local clinic to have their pregnancies aborted.”

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