Adamo Macri Quotes, Life Quotes, Art Quotes

Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of fruit is much easier. It's for the same reason why we don't like going to the doctor. The diagnosis and x-rays are too honest. This is what creates the perception that contemporary art is shocking or suspicious.

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[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Life Quotes , Clever Quotes

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Love Quotes , Life Quotes

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Love Quotes , Life Quotes

I don't count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. That is when I start counting, because then it really counts. That's what makes you a champion.

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Tags : Muhammad Ali Quotes , Life Quotes , Hurt Quotes

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Life Quotes

Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Life Quotes , Leaving Quotes

No matter how many detours and adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the same compass point. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting on a star that indicated the location of the oasis.

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The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Love Quotes , Life Quotes

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Life Quotes , Dream Quotes

Far from the world I walk, and from all care.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Life Quotes , World Quotes

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Life Quotes

Sing, for faith and hope are high- None so true as you and I- Sing the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can never die!"

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Life Quotes , Lovers Quotes

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Love Quotes , Life Quotes

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Life Quotes , Inspiring Quotes

The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Life Quotes , Boys Quotes

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Life Quotes , Death Quotes

DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed . . . deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Life Quotes , Time Quotes

Getting married, having children, and staying together long after all love has died, saying that it's for the good of the children (who are, apparently, deaf to the constant rows).

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Life Quotes , Children Quotes

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Life Quotes