"Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?"

-- Richard Yates

#Artist Quotes #People Quotes

“Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.”
“There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs.”
“Sometimes you canâ€™t let go of the past without facing it again.”
“We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.”
“The quiet sense of something lost”
“The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.”

Source : Edith Stein (2012). “Edith Stein Essays on Woman”, p.12, ICS Publications
“Art functioning as propaganda is not art.”
“Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.”

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