"Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important."

-- Paul Strand

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“When I say the grace of wildness, what I mean is its autonomy, its self-possession, the fact that it has nothing to do with us. The grace is in the separation, the distance, the sense of a self-sustaining way of life.”

Source : Verlyn Klinkenborg (2013). “More Scenes from the Rural Life”, p.81, Princeton Architectural Press
“My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie.”
“I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.”

Source : "Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life". Book by Caroline Moorehead, p. 88, 2003.
“The sort of public sex aspects of gay male sexuality did not appeal to me. And it wasn't just a matter of being afraid of them or being too nervous to try them. I did try them and they didn't work for me, they didn't feed me spiritually, they didn't leave me gratified.”
“When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use my own things as they didn't fit any set pattern. When I joined [Chico Hamilton], he helped me immensely to develop my own style. He never forced me in any set way. At all times, he encouraged me to be myself on the instrument.”
“Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, Suffering, yet hoping all things.”

Source : Felicia Hemans (2002). “The Siege of Valencia: A Parallel Text Edition”, p.91, Broadview Press
“Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.”
“To advise is not to compel.”

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