"The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine."

-- Aristotle

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“En France particulie' rement, les mots ont plus d'empire que les ide es. In France particularly, words reign over ideas.”
“Chocolates and cakes are the biggest problem I have. That is why I punish myself at the gym because I know I can't stop myself from eating what I want. I call it eating your cake and having it.”
“Were spirits free from mortal mesh And love not bound in hearts of flesh No aching breasts would yearn to meet And find their ecstasy complete. For who is there that lives and knows The secret powers by which he grows?”

Source : Christopher John Brennan (1966). “Selected Poems”, Sydney, Angus
“The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalises itself, so to speak. The aesthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of aesthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.”
“Lettering is a precise art and strictly subject to tradition. The 'New Art ' notion that you can make letters whatever shapes you like,is as foolish as the notion, if anyone has such a notion, that you can make houses any shapes you like. You can't, unless you live all by yourself on a desert island.”
“An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.”
“I'm not looking for starters, I'm looking for finishers.”
“I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!”

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