Every truthful work of art must express a definite feeling, must move the spirit of the spectator either to joy or to sadness.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
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Every truthful work of art must express a definite feeling, must move the spirit of the spectator either to joy or to sadness.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
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Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
~ A. J. Liebling
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France is a picture already painted. America still has to be painted. Maybe that’s why I feel freer there. But when I work in America, it’s like shouting in a forest. There’s no echo.
~ Marc Chagall
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Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society – both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug.
~ Antonio Gramsci
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Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
~ George Will
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The past is the luxury of proprietors.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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