"The fresh start is always an illusion but a necessary one."

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Source : Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins

Eleanor Clark

#Fresh Start Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.”
“I think that headband and that brylcreem and that gel on his hair will do him no good should we get it on.”
“I chase after inspiring stories.”
“Only what we have lost forever do we possess forever. Only when we have drunk from the river of darkness can we truly see. Only when our legs have rotted off can we truly dance. As long as there is death, there is hope”
“We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.”
“Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which their occupation can be expressed. We borrow a foreign word [Savant] from another country whose high ambition it is to advance science, and whose deeper policy, in accord with more generous feelings, gives to the intellectual labourer reward and honour, in return for services which crown the nation with imperishable renown, and ultimately enrich the human race.”
“It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.”
“The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.”

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