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“You always have to go too far to get anywhere at all, in art or life.”
― Francis Bacon (painter)

“I couldn't explain philosophy myself, and I doubt you could, either. Although it's ...' Her mother paused. 'I suppose it involves feeling something, and then using that feeling as a starting point for a train of thought. The feeling itself may be naïve, a lingering sense of wonder at something most people take for granted but you hold on to it, and think it through as far as you can. Does that sound right?”
― Yasunari Kawabata

“There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. A personal God is a disappointing God; and Job, Omar Khayyam, Euripides, Palladas, Voltaire and Professor Housman will denounce him. With Buddhism, Taoism, Quietism, and the God of Spinoza there can be no disappointment, because there is no Appointment.”
― Palinurus, The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus

“Plus je me suis examiné, plus j'ai vue que je n'étais propre qu'à être roi.”
― Armand De Madaillan De Lesparre Lassay