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“Ambivalence and contradiction energize nearly every figure Michaelangelo carved, from the adolescent Madonna of the Stairs onward...But the four allegories atop the sarcophagi raise them to a symphonic crescendo. Each is a battleground of conflicting emotions and motives, in which will and paralysis battle for supremacy.”
― Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara
― Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara
“In defeat, look at the stars; in victory, look at the ground! From the stars, you get hope; from the ground, you get caution.”
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“It has taken stealth and some underhandedness. It has taken clarity of purpose when the moment called for dreamy abandon. He has practised withdrawal.”
― February
― February
“It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“And could a man sink to such triviality, such meanness, such nastiness? Could he change so much? And is it true to life? Yes, it is all true to life. All this can happen to a man. The ardent youth of today would start back in horror if you could show him his portrait in old age. As you pass from the soft years of youth into harsh, hardening manhood, be sure you take with you on the way all the humane emotions, do not leave them on the road: you will not pick them up again afterwards!”
― Dead Souls
― Dead Souls
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