“When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.”
― Oryx and Crake
― Oryx and Crake
“The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.”
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“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the mist.”
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“It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.”
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