"The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence."

-- Gustave Flaubert

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“UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.”
“Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.”
“One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.”
“No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.”

Source : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Alvin Moore, Rama P. Coomaraswamy, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (1988). “Selected letters of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy”, Oxford University Press, USA
“Nature expresses a design of love and truth.”
“People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea that rights aren't absolute but are enjoyed on a kind of sliding scale.”
“People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination”

Source : "McQueen Leaves Fashion in Ruins" by Eric Wilson, www.nytimes.com. March 11, 2009.
“In Presence, there is no outcome. It is our involvement in the outcome that keeps us imprisoned in an imagined future. In Presence, there is only now.”

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