"What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion"

-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#Gains Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“I'm not criticizing the science in Star Wars. That's a waste of everybody's time.”
“Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.”

Source : Theocritus (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Theocritus (Illustrated)”, p.71, Delphi Classics
“To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, a more selective, more acute seeing eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world.”
“Your imperfections make you beautiful, they make you who you are.”
“I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed. The silken sound of whirled infinity Is lost in voices shouting to be heardâ€¦”

Source : William Alexander Percy (1944). “The collected poems of William Alexander Percy”
“After eight years on 'Young and the Restless' and eight years on 'Criminal Minds,' I'm ready for that next phase of my career.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I never lost money by turning a profit.”
“What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.”

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