"Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects."

-- Gustave Courbet

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“It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.”
“Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is it too late?' That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it's too late, you don't need to act; if it's not too late, you don't need to act.”
“Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us.”

Source : James Robertson (2010). “And the Land Lay Still”, p.23, Penguin UK
“Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.”
“My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.”

Source : Kary Mullis (2010). “Dancing Naked in the Mind Field”, p.26, Vintage
“It is only when your awareness reaches the heart that great progress from your practice is possible.”
“Life is complicated. It wtarts before we're ready, it continues while we're still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we've worked out just what to do.”
“From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep internal correspondence between the man and his philosophy. Are our philosophies, then, merely the inevitable outcome of the body of fate and personal circumstance that is thrust upon each of us? Or are these beliefs the means by which we freely create ourselves as the persons we become? Here, at the very outset, the question of freedom already hovers in the background.”

Source : William Barrett (1978). “The illusion of technique: a search for meaning in a technological civilization”, Anchor Books

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