"The only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand."

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Source : Frederick Sommer, John Weiss, University of Delaware. Dept. of Art, Delaware Art Museum (1980). “Venus, Jupiter & Mars: the photographs of Frederick Sommer : an exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum from April 27 through June 8, 1980”

Frederick Sommer

#Way Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has a right to the practice of her profession and cannot be condemned to abandon it merely because she marries. I cannot conceive how women's colleges, inviting and encouraging women to enter professions can be justly founded or maintained denying such a principle.”
“Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.”
“Although, I didnt really like sushi until I moved out to L.A.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and actions. What is our duty? To live a life.”

Source : Rick Bass (1997). “The Lost Grizzlies: A Search for Survivors in the Wilderness of Colorado”, p.236, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“It was as if she had emitted a pulse of radiation that reached him even where he stood, and it bathed him and it burned him.”
“He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.”
“I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.”
“For every album, I really try to make an album that you hopefully will listen to from the first track to the last track. I personally really like if there's a - maybe not a story, but there's a natural flow.”

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