"The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor."

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Source : Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.23, 1st World Publishing

Clarence Day

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“Love will not serve those who do not live for her, and in her, and to whom she is not the breath of life.”
“No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes the scripture.”
“It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.”
“Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.”
“To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while relinquishing things that do not matter to us. A lukewarm yearning for awakening is not enough to sustain us through the difficulties involved in letting go. It is important to understand that anything that can be lost was never truly ours, anything that we deeply cling to only imprisons us.”
“The cause of bandha and moksha (bondage and liberation) is our own minds. If we think we are bound, we are bound. If we think we are liberated, we are liberated. . . . It is only when we transcend the mind that we are free from all these troubles. (117)”
“Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.”

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