"What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal."

-- Adi Shankara

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“Then down came the lid--the day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo. World-politics stepped in, and a war was started which has not ended yet: a "war to end war." But it merely ended art. It did not end war.”

Source : 1937 Blasting and Bombardiering, pt.5,'Toward an Art-Less Society'.
“It occurred to Dr. Lecter in the moment that with all his knowledge and intrusion, he could never entirely predict her, or own her at all. He could feed the caterpillar, he could whisper through the chrysalis; what hatched out followed its own nature and was beyond him. He wondered if she had the .45 on her leg beneath the gown. Clarice Starling smiled at him then, the cabochons caught the firelight and the monster was lost in self-congratulation at his own exquisite taste and cunning.”
“Imagine! People are not volunteering to go to foreign countries and die the way they used to! Imagine that!”
“Success, which touches nothing that it does not vulgarize, should be its own reward.”

Source : Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1970). “Thirty tales & sketches”
“Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident.”
“Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?'”
“My dad used to flush my mother's head down the toilet. I was so screwed up.”
“At what point do [progressives] take off our partisan blinders and start wondering whether a very powerful faction of Democrats actually continues to SUPPORT President Bush and the War in Iraq?”

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