"When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness."

-- Alberto Giacometti

#Men Quotes #Drawing Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.”
“Clothes, when abstracted from the flow of present time and their transmogrifying function on the human body, and seen as forms in themselves, are strange tubes and excrescences worthy of being classed with such facial decorations as the ring through the nose or the lip-stretching disk. But how enchanting they become when seen togetherwith the qualities they bestow on their wearer! What happens then is no less than the infusion, into some tangled lines on a piece of paper, of the meaning of a great word.”
“'THIS ROOM HAS MYSTERY LIKE A TRANCE' This room has mystery like a trance Of wine ; forget-me-nots of you Are chair and couch, the books your Fingers touched. And now that you Are absent here the silence scrapes A secret rust from everything; While sudden wreaths of sorrow's Dust uncover emptiness like halls To stumble through, and terror falls”
“If we're all going to die, shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now?”
“To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.”
“Bruce, youâ€™re an ugly and silly old man. Youâ€™re very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what else. Youâ€™re the type of sad case who preys on vulnerable, weak and stupid women in order to boost his own shattered ego. Youâ€™re a mess. Youâ€™ve gone wrong somewhere pal.”
“True universalists are not those who preach global tolerance of differences and all-encompassing unity, but those who engage in a passionate struggle for the assertion of the Truth which compels them.”
“It's amazing what you can get on open source now if you actually use the right search engines to find the material.”

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