"To have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals."

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Susan Stebbing

“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.”
“Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.”
“The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.”
“The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.”
“I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.”

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“Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.”
“This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a work of art which you have the insight, sensitivity, and â€” like it or not â€” peculiar set of experiences to appreciate. Amazing thing to say, the consolation of horror in art is that it actually intensifies our panic, loudens it on the sounding-board of our horror-hollowed hearts, turns terror up full blast, all the while reaching for that perfect and deafening amplitude at which we may dance to the bizarre music of our own misery.”
“Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.”

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