"Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society."

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Source : Alfred Austin (1894). “The Garden that I Love”

Alfred Austin

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“The clothes you wear are a metamorphosis. They change you from the outside in.”
“Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.”
“To live in a world of photographs is to live in a world of substitutes... or so it seems, whose actual referent is always the other, the described, the reality of a world once removed. I prefer, on the other hand, to look at the photographs as something real and of my world, a strange and powerful thing... part of a language, a system of communication, an economy of signs.”
“I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective.”
“We must constantly remain in a state of prayer; it is not something we do for just a few minutes now and again, or on certain occasions when we are especially in need. It is extremely important that God can speak to us all the time. This makes it much easier to seek the kingdom of heaven at all times.”
“Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.”

Source : "The Tin Drum" by Gunter Grass, translated by Ralph Manheim, Book 1, "Rasputin and the Alphabet", 1961.
“I don't necessarily do anything just for the money. I do it for the passion and I do it for the love, because I'm still hungry. So if I want to do music, it's not necessarily motivated because of monetary value. It's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.”
“Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things.”

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