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“Everywhere is desert. Everywhere is solitude in which man must do penance and fight the adversary and purify his own heart in the grace of God.”
― Thoughts in Solitude
― Thoughts in Solitude
“I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.”
― On My Painting
― On My Painting
“Great is the rejoicing that is made in the city by the magistrates and by the parents of all those who obtain a passing grade, for as they are heathens they think that this is both their glory and their paradise.”
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“It was clear that unless he acted the way the officials wanted, they might not function the way he wanted. This was tantamount to saying that while the bureaucracy was created to carry out governmental functions, the most pressing problem it had to handle was none other than the bureaucracy itself.”
― 1587: A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline
― 1587: A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline
“Human nature, which is fundamentally careless and by nature like the whirling dust, endures no restraint. If it restricts itself, it will soon begin to shake the restraints madly and tear up walls, chains, and even itself all over the place.”
― The Great Wall of China
― The Great Wall of China
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