"Art is the accomplice of love."

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Source : Remy de Gourmont (1921). “Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas”

Remy de Gourmont

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“Whenever I feel like I'm getting too far away from where I need to be, I think about my sons and the legacy I have to leave for them - and it always brings me back to reality.”
“Anything worth having is worth going for- all the way.”
“Nixon urged Clinton to maintain his relationship with Yeltsin but make contact with other democrats in Russia. He warned Clinton away from some ultranationalists and toward those interested in liberty and reform. He pressed Clinton to replace his ambassador in Kiev and concentrate future U.S. economic aid on Ukraine, where it would matter most.”
“Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.”
“Although I am a strong political conservative, I now believe that the costs of our fruitless struggle against illegal drugs are not worth the modest benefits likely to be achieved.”
“The open mode is a mood in which curiosity for its own sake can operate, because we're not under pressure to get a specific thing done properly. We can play.”
“The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.”

Source : John Jay Chapman (1921). “William Lloyd Garrison”
“Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.”

Source : Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.48, Penguin

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