"Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for."

-- George Sand

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“To empathize means to share, to experience the feelings of another person.”
“We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.”
“Dr Johnson died in 1944. The suspicion exists that he was silenced...However two federal inspectors did examine his hospital record in the late 1950's. They concluded it was likely that he was poisoned.”
“Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.”

Source : Eric Voegelin (1987). “The New Science of Politics: An Introduction”, p.173, University of Chicago Press
“I got knockback after knockback at auditions. Just before â€˜Mulholland Dr.â€™ my agent told me I was so intense I was freaking people out. She told me I was a brilliant actor but the feedback was that I made people feel uncomfortable because I was so nervous and intense. I just sat there and blubbed. My mum was staying in LA at the time and I went to her and said: â€˜I just canâ€™t do this. Iâ€™m not cut out for it.â€™ She just said: â€˜Donâ€™t believe a word people say about you. Forget them.â€™”
“The play-it-safe pessimists of the world never accomplish much of anything, because they don't look clearly and objectively at situations, they don't recognize or believe in their own abilities to overcome even the smallest amount of risk.”
“I think there's just too much greed in the world today [and] that's why we have problems.”
“When you've tried all the salves in the world and they don't work, you start thinking about fire”

Source : Stephen R. Donaldson (1982). “The wounded land”, Del Rey

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