"Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity."

-- Thomas Merton

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“Face, to me, is a metaphor of sadness. And I want to share this sadness. I'm not really interested whether it's an Indian face or not - that's not as important for me. But it's still important to establish the relationships in order to bring about a consciousness of our fragility.”

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“Whoever raises a righteous child, it is as if he did not die.”
“Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally.”
“I've always said your legacy is what you leave behind you.”
“Conservatism has always meant more to me than simply sticking up for private property & free enterprise. It has also meant defending our heritage & preserving our values.”
“My mother used to have a shop in which she offered very colorful clothes. I liked that from my early days on.”
“Matisse renovates rather than innovates.”
“We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.”

Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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