Dmitry Mitenkov

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Dmitry’s Quotes

“Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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“You can still die when the sun is shining.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source

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“You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

tags: life, love, religion

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“Oh, this yearning to be white, this yearning to have straight hair, this lifelong striving to be different from the way one is created this great difficulty in accepting oneself, I knew it and saw only my own longing from outside, saw the absurdity of our yearning to be different from what we are...”
― Max Frisch, I'm Not Stiller

tags: accepting-oneself, different, reality-vs-pretension

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