"Each one of these bodies (art-works Arp made) certainly signifies something, but it is only once there is nothing left for me to change that I begin to look for its meaning, that I give it a name."

-- Hans Arp

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“The planet isn't improvising, it's creating dynamic tensions between complex living systems in a planetary choreography, a balancing act between physical, chemical, biological, environmental, and human components.”
“To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.”
“Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you're mean.”
“She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.”
“When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.”
“I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.”
“Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.”
“From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone elseâ€™s. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone elseâ€™s, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.”

Source : Sebastian Faulks (2010). “Girl At The Lion d'Or”, p.83, Random House

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