"I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it."

-- Henri Matisse

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“Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.”
“Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our own power to name ourselves, the world, or God.”
“The greatest victory a man can win is victory over himself.”

Source : Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1951). “The education of man, aphorisms”
“I would like to see somebody who speaks for the underdog, for the people who don`t have this in healthcare benefits. So I would like to see a candidate who has the guts to opposition that America could be a land for all people, not just the land control by the super rich.”
“I missed the day in school where you subtract all the zeros. Let's say you subtract 10,000 minus 89. I never got the fact that you go next door and borrow a cup of coffee, and the zero changes to nine. For the longest time, I didn't know how to do it. I still to this day have been affected, and it was just one day they taught it. I was too afraid to say, "Why? What's going on with the zeroes?" So for the longest time, I thought that was a conspiracy.”
“The thing I never understood about love is that it can't be quelled, like lust can. With love, if you follow its call, if you give in to it, it just gets worse. The more you have, the deeper you go, the more you need.”

Source : Emily Maguire (2009). “Taming the Beast”, p.350, Picador Australia
“I want to make smart choices.”
“I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.”

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