"To achieve contact with reality is not to transport oneself elsewhere; it is not transcendence but thorough immersion in one's surroundings - a reality which is neither purely physical nor metaphysical, but both at once."

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Source : "Antoni Tapies". UNESCO Courier, June 1994.

Antoni Tapies

#Reality Quotes #Achieve Quotes #Thorough Quotes

“You have your way of life, we ours. In your system of life we are essentially without 'honor.' In our system of life you are essentially without morality. In your system of life we must forever appear graceless; to us you must forever appear godless.”
“Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.”
“It wasn't so much that I was afraid of the place itself, but I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people.”
“A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.”
“A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.”
“That's how it works in Westerns: the hero is minding his own business and trying to make a living, but he does something, the villain finds out about it and they have to have a showdown. So it's kind of a Western set to hip hop music.”
“To meet the shortage of supplies from America, due to lack of shipping, the representatives of the different supply departments were constantly in search of available material and supplies in Europe.”

Source : Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights ...: Why America Entered the Conflict ...& a Thrilling Account of the Important Part Taken by the Negro in the Tragic Defeat of Germany ...”
“I think I've learned that if you have a house, you end up living in the kitchen, so if you have one big kitchen and then enough bedrooms for your family, that's about all you need for a home.”

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