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  • The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Art Quotes , Children Quotes
  • Creativity is basically a feminine process. I'm convinced that we have in our soul, everybody, this masculine side and this feminine side. So at the end of the day, you always use this feminine creative energy to write or to do any type of art or creativity. So if I see that my protagonist is feminine, it's not more difficult, no. And even when my protagonist is masculine, I'm writing from using this feminine energy.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Art Quotes , Creativity Quotes
  • The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether is cowardly avoidance of a difficult job. For we have to learn the art of enjoying things BECAUSE they are impermanent.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Art Quotes , Jobs Quotes
  • The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high refinement of modern life,in arts, in sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality, and a purpose; and first, last, midst, and without end, to honor every truth by use.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Faith Quotes , Art Quotes
  • Sometimes it has been of great moment while the fight is going on, to disseminate words that pronounce the enemies' captain to be dead, or to have been conquered by another part of the army. Many times this has given victory to him who used it.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes