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“the great thing about graphic design is that it is almost always about something else.”
― Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design
― Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design
“Other than a dethroned king, who would sorrow over not having a throne?"
If we were not born with the ability to conduct ourselves with morality, there would be no reason for bitter tears.”
― How Do You Live?
If we were not born with the ability to conduct ourselves with morality, there would be no reason for bitter tears.”
― How Do You Live?
“In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, "Here comes one who will augment our loves." For in this love "to divide is not to take away.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“My library is an archive of longings.”
― As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
― As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“The present world is good, but broken and in any case incomplete; art of all kinds enables us to understand that paradox in its many dimensions. But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be played: beautiful to look at, graceful to hold—and yet if you’d never heard one in the hands of a musician, you wouldn’t believe the new dimensions of beauty yet to be revealed.”
― Simply Christian
― Simply Christian
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