When one has once accepted and absorbed evil, it no longer demands to be believed.
~ Franz Kafka
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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The compulsive overachievement of today’s elite college students – the sense that they need to keep running as fast as they can – is not the only thing that keeps them from forming the deeper relationships that might relieve their anguish. Something more insidious is operating, too: a resistance to vulnerability, a fear of looking like the only one who isn’t capable of handling the pressure.
~ William Deresiewicz
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There is nothing in this World constant but inconstancy, yet Plato thought that if virtue would appear to the world in her own native dress, all men would be enamoured with her.
~ Jonathan Swift
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“The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real. I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.”
~ Chester Himes
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The Musée National d’Art Moderne
turns 77 today
The Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris, France was established on this day – June 9 – in 1947.
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It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.
~ Charles Dickens
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If we were willing to evaluate things not according to the opinion of the crowd, but according to nature itself, how is it less repulsive to eat, chew, digest, evacuate, and sleep after the fashion of dumb animals, than to enjoy lawful and permitted carnal relations?
~ Desiderius Erasmus
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Nobody is interested in following a man who, with his eyes fixed on the ground, spends his life looking for the purse that fortune should put in his path. The one who finds something no matter what it might be, even if his intention were not to search for it, at least arouses our curiosity, if not our admiration.
~ Pablo Picasso
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Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design.
~ Dieter Rams
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I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I’ll paint one.
~ Gustave Courbet
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