"Nam nec historia debet egredi veritatem, et honeste factis veritas sufficit."

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“Plenus annis abit, plenus honoribus.”

“The living voice is that which sways the soul.”

“By then day had broken everywhere, but here it was still night—no, more than night.”

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“Modestus said of Regulus that he was "the biggest rascal that walks upon two legs.”

“There is nothing to write about, you say. Well, then, write and let me know just this,—that there is nothing to write about; or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well.”

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"Whatever we may think of its character as reality or illusion, this sphere arises and exists in the fact that man depends on himself over against God. But this means that in actual fact God becomes un…"

— Karl Barth

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"The think of artists as prostitutes. And in reality it’s true: in the Communist system artists just represent what the power structure seeks them to represent. It is prostitution."

— Ai Weiwei

Art1957

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