"Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art."

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Source : Eminent Victorians preface (1918)

Lytton Strachey

#Art Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Perfection Quotes

“Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.”
“Chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort.”

Source : "How to make stress your friend". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2013.
“I was the drummer in a band called Hemsworth for a brief stint, too - it was not very great. I didn't even write the songs, but the band was named after me.”
“The more prepared I am, the better my future.”

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“Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.”
“Life would have been easier for me if I just hadn't met you. But then it hadn't been my life.”
“In other words these children, by avoiding the early drill on combinations, tables, and that sort of thing, had been able, in one year, to attain the level of accomplishment which the traditionally taught children had reached after three and one-half years of arithmetical drill.”
“I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for night scenes.”

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