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"“In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure, and to consider it as one of the conditions of human life”.
“(Art) is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress towards the well being of individuals and humanity”." — Aug 04, 2022 03:43PM
"“In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure, and to consider it as one of the conditions of human life”.
“(Art) is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress towards the well being of individuals and humanity”." — Aug 04, 2022 03:43PM
“I will not be like a bird bred in a cage, I thought, too dull to fly even when the door stands open.”
― Circe
― Circe
“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“I fell so fast, so hard, and so completely. Not because love is blind, but because . . . it’s not. Love isn’t blind, it’s blinding. Glaring.”
― What the Wind Knows
― What the Wind Knows
“People always live badly today; they only live well tomorrow. For the sake of ambition they strive against each other with evil deeds, but the path to glory would be easier to tread by doing good to one another. Although they always speak evil, they hope to be well spoken of themselves; although they do evil, they hope to receive good. We proclaim that we are the authors of good, but that God is the author of evil.”
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“Yet because I knew nothing, nothing was beneath me.”
― Circe
― Circe
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