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Rebecca West quote: "Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing..."

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

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Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it. Oscar Wilde
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own. John Maynard Keynes
I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds trying to see giant squid. I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living one. Nor has anybody else. David Attenborough
We should realize that if something untrue or immoral is stated in great art, it can be far more devastating than if it is expressed in poor art. The greater the artistic expression, the more important it is to consciously bring it and it's worldview under the judgment of Christ and the Bible. The common reaction among many however, is just the opposite. Ordinarily, many seem to feel that the greater the art, the less we ought to be critical of its worldview. This we must reverse. Francis Schaeffer
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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. Soren Kierkegaard
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I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done. Famke Janssen
Henry B. Adams quote: "He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers."
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. Henry B. Adams
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I did a couple of American Express commercials. Jason Dohring
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement. George Eliot
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world. James Joyce
Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself. Adam Savage