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Rene Magritte

"Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it."

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"Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it."

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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

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"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."

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"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

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"Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that?"

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"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."

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"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."

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"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."

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"I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue."

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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

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"We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world."
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"Life obliges me to do something, so I paint."
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"Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see."
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"To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been."
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"My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable."
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"The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown."
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"Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist."
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"Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it."
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