May 2012
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Art photography is usually a device to give importance to mediocrity.
– Elliott Erwitt
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You have all the fears of mortals an all the desires of immortals.
– Seneca
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I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at...
– Coco Chanel
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My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.
– Coco Chanel
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April 2012
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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
– Albert Camus
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The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas,...
– Andrei Tarkovsky in his book Sculpting in Time
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You don’t stop running because you get old. You get old because you stop...
– Jack Kirk
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Let us live so that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.
– Mark Twain
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Certainty is the greatest of all illusions: whatever kind of fundamentalism it...
– Iain McGilchrist
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looklikerain:
“I don’t know if anybody else has this feeling. When you’re walking down the street and you catch your reflection in something like a car window or a shop window and you see your face and you think, ‘Who’s that?’. You know: ‘That’s not me, that doesn’t represent who I am’. And I think I’ve recently discovered what the problem is and it’s a feeling that essentially you’re just in a...
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Homo consumens - concerned with things more than people, property more than...
– Eric Fromm
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Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways...
– Iain McGilchrist
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It’s Friday! And there is no Saturday if you do Friday right!
– BBC documentary “Stupidity” (via pukomuko)
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March 2012
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Small doses of distraction — including hard-to-read fonts or moderate background...
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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any...
– Albert Camus
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Creativity is the residue of time wasted.
– Albert Einstein
Jonah Lehrer on How to Be Creative - WSJ.com