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“There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.”
Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.141, Da Capo Press
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“I'm very, very jealous of guys who just go and decide to party and then can work the next day.”
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“Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely physical language, the words of which consist of all visible objects. An object which is abstract, not visible, non-existent, is not within the realm of painting.”
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“I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability”
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“In Paris, I didn't want to be friends with people in fashion. I wanted to get into a philosophical society where all the thinking men were.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world...”
Source : "Understanding and Imagination in the Light of Nature". Book by Terence McKenna, 1987.
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“There are sacred moments in life when we experience in rational and very direct ways that separation, the boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality. We can experience that stasis is illusory and that reality is continual flux and change on very subtle and also on gross levels of perception . . . When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.”
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“The passions do not die out; they burn out.”