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“There are idiots who define my work as abstract; yet what they call abstract is what is most realistic. What is real is not the appearance, but the idea, the essence of things.”

“Don't look for mysteries. I give you pure joy.”

“Work like a slave; command like a king; create like a god.”

“Like everything else I've ever done, there was a furious struggle to rise heavenward.”

“All my life l have sought the essence of flight. Flight — what bliss.”

“I ground matter to find the continuous line. And when I realized I could not find it, I stopped, as if an unseen someone had slapped my hands.”

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"For, let's face it, digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones. Laurence Sterne said it once: Digressions…"

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"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader."

— Robert Frost

Literature1874–1963

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"My dear reader, read aloud, if possible! If you do so, allow me to thank you for it: if you not only do it yourself, if you also influence others to do it, allow me to thank each one of them, and you …"

— Søren Kierkegaard

Philosophy1813–1855

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