Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it. - Eric Gill

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Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or twelve people a day, and sometimes four or five people an hour!

Eric Gill

Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it.

Human, Humans, Man, Men, Plane, Planes

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The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences. No one can say that the O’s roundness appeals to us only because it is like that of an apple or of a girl’s breast or of the full moon. Letters are things, not pictures of things.

Appeals, Apples, Derive, Girl, Moon, Say

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

Art, Different, Kind, Person, Artist

Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill.

Bridges, Building, Gothic, Iron, Real, Sugar

There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.

Design, Different, Letters, Fools, Kinds

Letters are things, not pictures of things.

Letters, Pictures, Things

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We are participants in a vast communion of being, and if we open ourselves to its guidance, we can learn anew how to live in this great and gracious community of truth.

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