"As long as I love Beauty I am young."

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Source : William Henry Davies, “Seeking Beauty”

W. H. Davies

#Love Is Quotes #Long Quotes #Young Quotes

“The people with the strong, brave exteriors are just as weak and vulnerable as the rest of us. And of course they never admit to their childish practices, their moments of weakness or absurdity, and then the rest of us think that's how it should be.”
“The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.”
“There are two reasons why man loses contact with the regulating center of his soul. One of them is that some single instinctive drive or emotional image can carry him into a one-sidedness that makes him lose his balance...his one-sidedness and consequent loss of balance are much dreaded by primitives, who call it 'loss of soul.' Another threat...circles around particular complexes”
“More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.”
“The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.”
“But the owls themselves are not hard to find, silent and on the wing, with their ear tufts flat against their heads as they fly and their huge wings alternately gliding and flapping as they maneuver through the trees. Athena's owl of wisdom and Merlin's companion, Archimedes, were screech owls surely, not this bird with the glassy gaze, restless on the bough, nothing but blood on its mind.”
“All artists are illusionists of one kind or another.”
“We don't know what we think until we see what we say.”

Source : Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.77, Basic Books

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