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“Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”
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“Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.”
― A Scanner Darkly
― A Scanner Darkly
“Nothing lives long
Only the earth and mountains”
― Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Only the earth and mountains”
― Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
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“We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the useful, the one we end up by being put in a coffin.”
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