"The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world."

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Source : Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.125, A&C Black

Edith Sitwell

#Children Quotes #Artist Quotes #World Quotes

“Entering the waters of baptism is something we do. The be that must precede it is faith in Jesus Christ and a mighty change of heart.”
“It's not about money. The money will flow. It's about power and influence.”
“I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To Remember Is Painful, To Forget Is Impossible.”
“If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing,”
“All the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the Galaxy ... could really understand one another. Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.”
“Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.”
“Economic localization is the key to sustaining biological and cultural diversity - to sustaining life itself.Â The sooner we shift towards the local, the sooner we will begin healing our planet, our communities and ourselves.”

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