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“If people were to tell other people everything about themselves, we’d live in a dull world.”
― Satin Island
― Satin Island
“Daydream is the only good thing in life. Everything else is vulgar and empty.”
― Là-Bas
― Là-Bas
“The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion”
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“What I see, what I see. What I see is the day in all its absurdity and triviality.”
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“…the outcome of my days is always the same; an infinite desire for what one never gets; a void one cannot fill; an utter yearning to produce in all ways, to battle against time that drags us along, and the distractions that throw a veil over our soul…….one works not only to produce art but to give value to time…. — Eugène Delacroix (1798 -1863)”
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Richard’s 2025 Year in Books
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