"In reality opposites are one; art shows this."

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Source : "Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness" by Eli Siegel, 1969.

Eli Siegel

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“Pain is not a conduit to art or joy”
“When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you've found it?”
“Love is not a consequence. Love is not a choice. Love is a thirst. A need as vital to the soul as water is to the body. Love is a precious draught that not only soothes a parched throat, but it vitalizes a man. It fortifies him enough that he is willing to slay dragons for the woman who offers it. Take that draught of love from me and I will shrivel to dust. To take it from a man dying of thirst and give it to another whilst he watches is a cruelty I never thought you capable of.”
“The imposition of taxes has its limits. There is a maximum which cannot be transcended. Suppose the citizen to be taxed by the general government to the utmost extent of his ability, or a thing as much as it can possibly bear, and the state imposes a tax at the same time, which authority is to take it?”

Source : Henry Clay (2015). “The Papers of Henry Clay: Presidential Candidate, 1821-1824”, p.587, University Press of Kentucky
“Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.”
“Whatever you want to do with your life, you really got to want it. And if you want it, and you work hard, it will happen.”
“I think my music is a lot different than what is already out there and people will be really attracted to it.”

Source : Source: www.seventeen.com
“I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.”

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