"Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization."

-- Jacques Ellul

#Taken Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Technique Quotes

“So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.”
“I am an artist first and a photographer second.”
“You know, I don't think there's anything truly unforgivable. Not where there's love.”

Source : Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.197, Penguin
“Weâ€™re too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.”
“Four of my children are daughters, and Ive watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women - how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over.”
“When you find your purpose, it is like your heart has been set alight with passion. You know it absolutely, without any doubt.”
“Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.”
“Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!”

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