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"I shut my eyes in order to see."
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"Everything that you wish to know, or desire for life, exists in you. All you have to do is take your attention inward and begin your search within."
"A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle."
"I take showers to think."
"And what does a person with such romantic temperament seek in the study of the classics?"If by romantic you mean solitary and introspective, I think romantics are frequently the best classicists."
"Lifting her lovely and longing face towards the inaudible chant of the sun, she drifted through her time, through space, through the concatenate cells of her unfolding self. Where to now, Abbzug? You're twenty-eight and a half years old, Abbzug."
"I fear I am beyond your comprehension."
"I Feel like a prison holding myself, bounded by the judgements of people I care and chained by the rules of the society I live in. If I would let the person who speaks inside me out, he would tell you a different story than what you have seen all these years. Sometimes I see myself crying, screaming and trying to tear myself into pieces when I stand in front of the mirror so that I could finally be free from myself. But the demons I have created inside me to guard beats me down and laughs at me, watching me bleed."
"That summer, in any case, all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me, and drove me into the church."
"I sat in a boxWith walls on each side.Not too tall.Not too wide.To think.To ponder.To pray.To hide.I sat in a box and cried."
"All answers that you seek can only be found within."
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"In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters."
"It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block."
"Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite."
"There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite."
"The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public."
"Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!"
"Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?"
"Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them."
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