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"Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning."
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"Living deeply requires more than a static vivisection of a person's history and a cold survey of the world. Living a meaningful life entails immersion in the continuous flow of life through passionate thinking, observation, and directed action."
"The thing that matters most is what matters to you, not anybody else."
"Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perhaps everything.... It is not that 'God' is a myth, but that myth is the revelation of a divine life in man. It is not we who invent myth; rather, it speaks to us as a Word of God."
"The word dyting is not synonymous with the word useless."
"But does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us, and that we all lose everything that matters in the end-and yet to know as well, despite all this, as cruelly as the game is stacked, that it's possible to play it with a kind of joy?To try to make some meaning out of all this seems unbelievably quaint. Maybe I only see a pattern because I've been staring too long. But then again, to paraphrase Boris, maybe I see a pattern because it's there."
"Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it's hard to slow yourself down."
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"Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time."
"Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits."
"History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy."
"The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness."
"A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world."
"A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence."
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