Via FAO Stat
- India
- China
- Indonesia
- Brazil
- Ecuador
Louis Feuerbach here. Generating this list reminded me of a book about the United Fruit Company that I read over Christmas Break in 2022 titled Bananas.
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I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of nothing more beautiful than the hawthorn, for I wish to remain sincere and because I know that the beauty of a painting does not depend on the things represented in it.
~ Marcel Proust
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This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance, is of an exactly contrary nature to the operation in which pride, passion, intelligence and habit are constantly engaged within us when we spend our lives without self-communion, accumulating as though to hide our true impressions, the terminology for practical ends which we falsely call life.
~ Marcel Proust
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
~ Marcel Proust
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If the world were clear, art would not exist.
~ Albert Camus
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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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Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.
~ Rollo May
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
~ Marcel Proust
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
~ George Santayana
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