"If a figure doesn't look back at you, you forget it."

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Source : Nathan Oliveira, Eugenia Parry, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries (1991). “Nathan Oliveira: paintings and works on paper, 1959-1991”

Nathan Oliveira

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“Let them no more say, God must do all, we can do nothing, and so encourage themselves to live in a careless neglect of God, and of their own souls, and salvation. Most certainly, altho' we cannot say, That if men improve their natural abilities as they ought to do, that grace will infallibly follow, yet there will not one sinner in all the reprobate world, stand forth at the day of judgment, and say, Lord, thou knowest I did all that possibly I could do, for the obtaining grace, and for all that, thou didst withhold it from me.”
“Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.”
“Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring." I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?" "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.”

Source : Stephanie Perkins (2014). “Lola and the Boy Next Door”, p.14, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.”
“Ever since I was 7 years old, I wanted to be great.”
“I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.”
“If I have to put anyone to bat for my life, it'll be Kallis or Dravid.”
“When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn't do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites.”

Source : "Dodd slams Google over legislatoin" by Ted Johnson, variety.com. December 8, 2011.

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