"I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things."

-- Andrew Sullivan

“The basic vehicle of the dance is the human body. When and how people dance is determined by their attitudes towards their body.”
“To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.”
“The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil of material forms, and disclose the thoughts which lie beneath them? When our researches are successful, and when a generous and heaven-eyed inspiration has elevated us above humanity, and raised us triumphantly into the very presence, as it were, of the divine intellect, how instantly and entirely are human pride and vanity repressed, and, by a single glance at the glories of the infinite mind, are we humbled to the dust.”
“To think is to say no.”
“If you're a performer, people tend to be quite positive about you or they have no opinion.”
“A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.”
“Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.”
“Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.”

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