"Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the country of being."

-- Susan Griffin

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“I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.”
“It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.”

Source : Trewin Copplestone, Edgar Degas (1998). “Edgar Degas”, Gramercy Books
“Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”
“Faith precedes the miracle. It has ever been so and shall ever be. It was not raining when Noah was commanded to build an ark. There was no visible ram in the thicket when Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac. Two heavenly personages were not yet seen when Joseph knelt and prayed. First came the test of faithâ€“and then the miracle. Remember that faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other. Cast out doubt. Cultivate faith.”
“To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.”
“It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life.”
“I believe that success brings responsibility. It also does not bring immunity to the consequences of our quickening march towards oblivion. The bottom line is that all of us should be invovled in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.”
“My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.”

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