"This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past."

-- Agathon

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“In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of your business, to teach them how to perform their parts.”

Source : Joel Barlow (1796). “The Political Writings of Joel Barlow ... A New Edition Corrected”, p.192
“You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self on paper. There's a possibility of it working if one chooses the terms, to wit: outshouting image-gimmick America through a quietly desperate search for self.”
“Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.”
“Every good that you do, every good that you say, every good thought you think, vibrates on and on and never ceases. The evil remains only until it is overcome by good, but the good remains forever.”
“I always try to take projects I'm genuinely interested and passionate about versus just trying to take projects for the money.”
“Listening to music and driving - that's the best way to listen to music. You just kind of zone out. Driving's so futuristic - you're barely putting in any effort, and this huge machine is pummeling down a strip of concrete.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the world, through all degradations and humiliations, in order to paint. I have to do this. Until the last drop every vision that exists in my being must be purged; then it will be a pleasure for me to be rid of this damned torture”

Source : Stephan Lackner, Max Beckmann (1983). “Max Beckmann”, Crown Pub
“I cannot live one day without love.”

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