Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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A picture speaks 1000 words
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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A picture speaks 1000 words
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I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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A philosopher worthy of the name has never said more than a single thing: and even then it is something he has tried to say, rather than actually said.
~ Henri-Louis Bergson
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Society’s logic is faulty, but its intimation of an enemy is not. Still, the social conflict with society is an incidental obstacle in the artist’s path.
~ Mark Rothko
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All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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