"Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace."

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Source : Jean-Henri Fabre, Alexander Teixeira De Mattos (2000). “The Life of the Fly”, p.175, The Minerva Group, Inc.

Jean-Henri Fabre

“The mind and the body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one”
“The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves...”
“I'm not a great player, but I'm a damn good one.”
“The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine.”

Source : "Evolution through the Back Door". www.freerepublic.com. June 15, 2003.
“Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.”

Source : Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company
“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.”
“Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the enemy.”
“Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.”

Source : Peter Kropotkin (2016). “The Conquest of Bread”, p.84, Peter Kropotkin

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