"Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside."

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Source : Erwin Mitsch, Egon Schiele (1988). “The art of Egon Schiele”

Egon Schiele

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“Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.”
“I challenge anyone to tell me that there isnâ€™t evil in this world. From the days of Cain and Abel we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldnâ€™t take away our freedoms. In fact, the only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.”
“More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense, the necessary mandate of survival that we shall love all our neighbors as we do ourselves, is being confirmed and reaffirmed.”

Source : Attributed to Ordway Tead in "The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life", p. 66, 1950.
“Coming through the fire and through the storm of life with a strong man, my fiance Ashanti, whom I've been dating for eight months and two wonderful children beside me, I'm just so happy that I have been able to maintain my integrity and get to where I am today with the right energy around me.”

Source : "The Stone Age: Angie Stone on her new album, fiance and D'Angelo". "Essence" Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.
“Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.”
“Look, therefore, which way we will, whether at the direct Scriptural statements of death as the penalty of sin, or at the agony of the cross as a means of rescue, or at the joy of the angels of God over a rescue; we see from either that it must be a work of infinite and eternal consequence--the work of redemption.”

Source : Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge and Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”
“Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.”
“When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'”

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