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Leigh is Currently Reading

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Les Miserables

by Christine Donougher

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Middlemarch

by George Eliot

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Waiting for Godot

by Samuel Beckett

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Leigh’s Quotes

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
― Edgar Degas

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“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.”
― Claude Levi-Strauss

tags: questions, science

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“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: science

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“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, inspirational

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“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, creativity, imagination

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