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“Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.”
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“Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.”
Source : John D. MacDonald (1985). “Five complete Travis McGee novels”, Outlet
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“To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.”
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“For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.”
Source : Susan Hill (1986). “The Woman in Black”
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“Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.”
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“Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic.”
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“The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it.”
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“The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also the site of illnesses and strains. (...) [I]t is an action-system, a mode of praxis, and its practical immersion in the interactions of day-to-day life is an essential part of the sustaining of a coherent sense of self-identity.”
Source : Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.103, John Wiley & Sons
