"All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots."

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Source : Miles Franklin (1984). “The End of My Career”

Miles Franklin

#Art Quotes #People Quotes #Idiot Quotes

“If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.”
“The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.”

Source : Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”
“I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.”
“I figure you're only here for a matter of moments. Ever since I was a kid watching movies I've always wanted to make people laugh or have some sort of emotional reaction.”
“Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.”
“Certain people give off positive energy, others negative. It's the quality of someone's being, a measure of the love with which they've led their lives. It also reflects the inner work they've done, their efforts to heal anger, hatred, or self-loathing, which poison us like toxic fumes.”

Source : Judith Orloff (2004). “Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love”, p.25, Harmony
“Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertarianism as an ideal - because I'm an idealist.”
“Go at least once a year to a place you've never been before.”

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