I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me. - Alfred de Musset

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The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a certain poverty, grimness and roughness which correspond to the violent realities of a cruel age.

Alfred de Musset

I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.

Help, Helping, Infinity, Spite

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I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.

Hand, Hands, Hold, Know, Knows, Walks

With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.

Hug, Kiss, Kissing, Unknown, Unknown Worlds, World

Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.

Dream, Lived, Love, Sleep

. . . but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.

Backward, Brink, Looks, Love, Says, Sometimes

The only true language in the world is a kiss.

Kiss, Kissing, Language, Love, True, World

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In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration, and when peace comes we will gladly convert not our swords into plowshares, but our bombs into peaceful reactors, and our planes into space vessels. "Pursue peace," the Bible tells us, and we shall pursue it with every effort and every energy that we possess. But it is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

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Freda Adler

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

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Imagine you are walking down a leafy path. . . The sun is receding, and you are walking alone, caressed by the breezy light of the late afternoon. Then suddenly, you feel a large drop on your right arm. Is it raining? You look up. The sky is still deceptively sunny. . . seconds later another drop. Then, with the sun still perched in the sky, you are drenched in a shower of rain. This is how memories invade me, abruptly and unexpectedly.

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Robert J. Shiller

Each profession has its own toolkit.

Profession, Toolkit

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