"Horror itself in that fair scene looks gay, And joy springs up e'en in the midst of fear. [It., Bello in si bella vista anco e l'orrore, E di mezzo la tema esce il diletto.]"

-- Torquato Tasso

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“I have come to see that our problem is that we don't know what happiness is. We confuse it with a life uncluttered by feelings of anxiety, rage, doubt, and sadness. But happiness is something entirely different. It's the ability to receive the pleasant without grasping and the unpleasant without condemning.”
“Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.”
“great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.”
“An acquaintanceship with the literature of the world may be won by any person who will devote half an hour a day to the careful reading of the best books. The habit of reading good books is one that gives great comfort in all the stages and among all the vicissitudes of life. The man who has learned to love good reading is never alone. His friends are the great ones of human history, and to them he may always go for stimulating and helpful communion. -GQ 71”
“I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph]”
“Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.”

Source : Rupert Brooke, James Strachey, Keith Hale (1998). “Friends and Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905-1914”, p.283, Yale University Press
“From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh”
“If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.”

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