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Mark McLaughlin
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“God is so far away that no one can say anything about him and that’s why all ideas about God are wrong, and at the same time he is so close that we almost can’t notice him, because he is the foundation in a person, or the abyss, you can call it whatever you want,”
― A New Name: Septology VI-VII
― A New Name: Septology VI-VII
“Art has no meaning if it’s not an escape. If it’s not born of a prisoner’s despair. I can’t respect any art that comforts and relieves, those novels and music and paintings designed to make your prison more bearable.”
― Solenoid
― Solenoid
“...one of the most important things when it comes to painting is being able to stop at the right time, to know when a picture is saying what it can say, if you keep going too long then more often than not the picture’ll be ruined...”
― I Is Another: Septology III-V
― I Is Another: Septology III-V
“it's almost like a language, because every language gives you access to its share of reality”
― I Is Another: Septology III-V
― I Is Another: Septology III-V
“...everyone has a deep longing inside them, we always always long for something and we believe that what we long for is this or that, this person or that person, this thing or that thing, but actually we’re longing for God, because the human being is a continuous prayer, a person is a prayer through his or her longing...”
― I Is Another: Septology III-V
― I Is Another: Septology III-V
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