"The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection."

--

Guillaume Apollinaire

#Unity Quotes #Purity Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.”
“As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.”
“If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.”
“They were soul mates, my mother and father. They claimed to adore each other, as if the word 'adore' meant 'argue with ceaselessly.”
“Never forget that your days are blessed. You may know how to profit by them, or you may not, but they are blesses.”
“The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.”
“Bless your heart, they don't mind--they're exceedingly kind-- They don't blame you--as long as you're funny!”
“Aid the dawning, tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men!”

Source : Charles Mackay (1859). “Ballads and Lyrics”

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