"Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile."

-- Anne Hathaway

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“We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through engagement with the arts.”
“The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself.”

Source : Elizabeth D. Samet (2007). “Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point”, p.55, Macmillan
“Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals of the arriviste. Inasmuch as one of those rituals consists of the establishment of suitable ancestry, a search for distinguished bloodlines, it inevitably happens that photographic history and criticism are more concern with notions of tradition and continuity than with those of rupture and change.”
“In this place of light: he dares to live Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things.”
“He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men.”
“Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spiritâ€™s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture. And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting, all their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.”
“The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.”
“The influence of woman will ever be exercised directly in all good or evil. Give her, then, such light as she is capable of receiving.”

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