"Choosing beauty over content (or choosing beauty as content) is always an act of sedition. If we accept the cant of official culture, we must believe that the beauty we steal from any man-made thing is stolen from its more virtuous and metaphysical backstory, wherein "real" beauty is said to reside."

-- Dave Hickey

#Real Quotes #Believe Quotes #Men Quotes

“I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.”
“Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.”

Source : Robert Harris (2006). “Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome”, p.304, Simon and Schuster
“We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.”
“Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!”
“All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep the sunlight away from their pages, I dust and protect them from hungry hookworms and grubby human fingers.”
“Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.”
“A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take, And warming in our own, A passage back, or two, to make To times when he was young. His quaint opinions to inspect, His knowledge to unfold On what concerns our mutual mind, The literature of old...”

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