"Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness."

-- Iris Murdoch

#Art Quotes #Pain Quotes #Memories Quotes

“Being Latina to me is living your life like it's a big old fiesta!”
“I just find that I enjoy the music that feels like there's a journey to the top of this mountain, then you're at the top of the mountain finally with this magical feeling, and you're stoked because you made it, and you're up there, but there's a little bit of sadness to think of all that you lost along the way to get there. I guess I relate and enjoy the path and the struggle very much. Maybe it's the competitive spirit in me.”
“Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.”
“For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.”
“Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder than anything we can say.”
“If you don't think of the future, you won't have one.”
“Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep.”

Source : Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley, Sir Graham Balfour (1903). “The amateur emigrant. Across the plains. The silverado squatters”
“To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.”

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