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"One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul."

— John Muir

Philosophy1838–1914

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"That is what he used to do, what he is doing now for the last hears. He is the only painter who paints like that.. ..like the wind, like the ocean, like the light, like the sunlight, like the moonligh…"

— Karel Appel

Art1921–2006

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"It’s easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook."

— Anton Chekhov

Literature1860–1904

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"Everyone is the other, and no one is himself. The they, which supplies the answer to the who of everyday Da-sein, is the nobody to whom every Da-sein has always already surrendered itself, in its bein…"

— Martin Heidegger

Philosophy1889–1976

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