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"Eternity is in love with the productions of time."

"Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust."

"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."

"In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?"

"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself."

"Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.]"

"A person who already displays … cruelty to animals is also no less hardened towards men. We can already know the human heart, even in regard to animals."

"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal."

"People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love."

"Think how you love me," she whispered. "I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night."

"The life of a revolutionary would be quite impossible without a certain amount of "fatalism."

"People who should be shot: Fascist thugs, religious fundamentalists, people who write lists telling you who should be shot."

"..people always talk about painting, because basically painting does not talk."

"That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other."

"he British workman has more to hope for from the rising tide of Tory democracy than from the dried up drain-pipe of Radicalism."

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion"

"It is only after years of preparation that the young should touch color — not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression."

"Betraying her class and origin with the heartbreaking openness Joelle's always viewed as either terribly stupid or terribly brave"

"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."

"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."

"There is still some study here for the Dutch landscape, and I believe the best I can do is to stay some time longer."

"I've been reviewing movies for a long time, and I can't think of one that more dramatically shoots itself in the foot."

"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."

"I was interested in ideas - not merely in visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind."

"No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."

"Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing."

"Frege's pair of concepts is compared with our pair . The two pairs coincide in ordinary contexts, but not in oblique contexts."

"People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be."

"What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly."

"This final aim is God's purpose with the world; but God is the absolutely perfect Being, and can, therefore, will nothing but himself."

"The only possible solution which will preserve Germany's honor and Germany's interest is, we repeat, a war with Russia."

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."

"Spinoza did not seek to found a sect, and he founded none"; yet all philosophy after him is permeated with his thought."

"My eyes, at times, would fill with tears in the editing room as we worked on telling Muir's story. It was a pleasure getting to know him better."

"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet."

"Art belongs to the domain of the unreal and it is only when people try to make a reality of it that it falls apart."

"Sculpture is based on the abstract of the planes and volumes that determine the forms, not their figurative value."

"It is easy to love people in memory the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you."

"QUESTION: A well-known saying of yours asserts that 'Every man is an artist.' If every man is an artist, then why have art academies and art professors at all?"

"I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and the white, the edges happen because the forms get as quiet as they can be."

"Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore."

"I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts."

"You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat"

"Those had left to love on earth were then: brothers and sisters in hatred, whom they called then: brothers and sisters in love."

"Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast."

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart."

"I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence."

"A Tribute to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Sketch of the composer's life with extensive references."

"Jacob Lawrence", Queens Museum of Art website; includes reproductions of several prints from the John Brown series."

"For it is a true rule, that love is ever rewarded either with the reciproque, or with an inward and secret contempt."

"You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes."

"Painting, literature, music, are more closely allied than the public usually admit. They are merely different means of expression."

"Handel is so great and so simple that no one but a professional musician is unable to understand him."

"Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana."

"An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible."

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."

"Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable."

"I don't know how I got into sculpture. I liked its physicality, that's the only reason. I didn't have a program."

"Those in government are especially susceptible to the corruption of power, because government is institutionalized coercion."

"not only narrow and selfish but arrogant very weak scientific foundation ."