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“So many, and so many, and such glee.”

“Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.”

“Knowledge enormous makes a God of me.”

“You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore.”

“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity—he is continually informing—and filling some other body.”

“Many have original minds who do not think it — they are led away by custom — Now it appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own citadel.”

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"Christopher Columbus landed first in the New World at the island of San Salvador, and after praising God enquired urgently for gold."

— C. L. R. James

Literature1901–1989

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"Thoughts alone won’t make extraordinary things happen. But nothing ever happens if you don’t visualise it first."

— Lewis Pugh

Law1969

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"I was born near a station. The first things that I saw in my life were the moving locomotives and trains, and I drew them as a three-year-old. Perhaps it is because of this that observations of moveme…"

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Art1880–1938

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"In the effort to regain a space of true leisure, to bring about a fundamentally correct attitude and "exercise" of leisure, the real difficulty of this so-often despaired-of project consists in the fa…"

— Josef Pieper

Philosophy1907–1977

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