"We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery."

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“To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.”

“I imagined I was God for a millisecond and became speechless for a long time.”

“Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.”

“I can see myself before myself—a being through dark scenery.”

“Possible impossibility emerges from an impossible possibility, or possibly, impossible possibility blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.”

“Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.”

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"He had worked for an entire year to make a dream come true, and that dream, minute by minute, was becoming less important. Maybe cause that wasn't really his dream."

— Paulo Coelho

Science1947–1985

#truth

"Logically the Neo-Pagan should get rid of the institution of marriage altogether; but the very nature of human society, which is built up of cells each of which is a family, and the very nature of hum…"

— Hilaire Belloc

Politics1870–1953

#family

"Maybe the years I spent playing the piano in taverns in Chicago and elsewhere led me to believe that the people who did that mundane work were as important to an understanding of art as the better-kno…"

— Howard S. Becker

Literature1928–2023

#knowledge

"I feel an inner relationship which leads from the antique tot the Gothic, especially from the early ancient art, and from the Gothic to my own feeling for form. A great simplicity of form is something…"

— Paula Modersohn-Becker

Art1876–1907

#art