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Xavier de Lecaros-aquise

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“I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.”
― Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives

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“The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

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“In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the present. The present slips and vanishes like sand between the fingers, acquiring material weight, only in its recollection.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

tags: past, present, time

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