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| | The real name of the city was erased from memory by the conquerors and the place is now known only by the name of its own destruction. The pile of stones thus marks both an act of deliberate remembrance and an act of deliberate destruction.
—Margaret Atwood
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| | Oxymoron: a contradiction in terms
Example: a small war |
| | The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get from it, but what they become by it.
—John Ruskin |
| | This work of the artist, to seek to discern something different under material, experience, words, is exactly the reverse of the prodess [of] every minute that we live with our attention diverted.
—Marcel Proust |
| | Rather than fit my art into some artificial idea of what my life was, I decided to find my life and let my art grow out of that.
—David Nash |
| | To change one's life:
Start immediately.
Do it flamboyently.
No exceptions.
—Henry James |
| | If you know where you're going then you're probably going in the wrong direction.
—Donald Saff |
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