"Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It is at such moments that one fully realizes one's own weaknesses."

-- Eugene Delacroix

#Heart Quotes #Decision Quotes #Weakness Quotes

“All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder.”
“In a weird Snookers world, like me and Snookers would make the best, like, little guidos and guidettes, little poofs and blow-outs on our little kids.”
“When man obliterates wilderness, he repudiates the life force, which put him on this planed in a bad way, and in a truly terrifying sense, he is on his own.”
“The more disciplined you become, the easier life gets.”
“Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.”
“Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt, the field where human freedom is unfurled. The modern world, the world of world war, the Third World, the underground world of death that acts upon us, do not have the civilized splendor of the Greek city state. The modern political domain is massively, in totalitarian fashion, social, leveling, exhausting. Hence madness is a space of antisocial, apolitical, and paradoxically free individuation”
“Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a ***** shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make readers think about the world in a different way than what they're used to. Why else would you pick up a book if not to inhabit another realm of existence for a while?”

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“I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations.”

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