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  Sanity is madness put to good uses.
—George Santayana
  Appealing work spaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
—Annie Dillard
 

All political systems end up with the same singular result: that of placing life last among all their preoccupations.
—Claudine Herrmann
The Tongue Snatchers

  We are what we remember
—Richard Restak
  Beauty thrives on keeping quiet and never explains itself.
—Denis Donoghue
  Beauty is difficult.
—Yeats
  Experience is what you have when what you expect doesn't happen.
—Lee Shulman