"When we are no longer children, we are already dead."

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Source : "Damien Hirst's former business manager puts art collection up for sale" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2018.

Damien Hirst

#Children Quotes

“Your greatest creation is yourself. Like any great work of art, creating a great self means putting in hard work, every day, for years.”
“Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns: they don't admit that. I can't say I feel particularly scarred or lessened by my experimentation with drugs. They've gotten a very bad name.”
“In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if you could imagine life before there were words.”
“Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash of insight that leaves you a changed person .”
“Caste is important for selection of home minister.”
“I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute.”

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“I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my "spaceship" and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again....”
“The Syrian people will never forget those who extended their hand to help them rid of their dictatorship. The Syrian people also would love to be friends with all nations. I think the new Syria will contribute greatly to the return of regional stability and the birth of common development with Arab nations and the region. The only exception is those countries that still harm the Syrian peoples and take some of their rights. We are looking for a region where cooperation, prosperity, and peace flourish.”

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