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Sandro di Mariano, whom people call more often by his popular nickname of Botticelli, since that name evokes, not the painter’s true work, but the idea of it that is vulgarized, banal, and false.
— Feb 26, 2014 03:46AM
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Riku Sayuj
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Proust once wrote: “A work of art which contains theories is like an article on which the price tag has been left.” Good to keep in mind, this quote.
— Dec 25, 2013 12:38AM
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Have to calm one's mind and slow one's breathing - turn into golden honey - every time a new paragraph is to be encountered.
— Dec 23, 2013 11:35AM
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A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the sequence of the hours, the order of the years and worlds. He consults them instinctively as he wakes and reads in a second the point on the earth he occupies, the time that has elapsed…; but their ranks can be mixed up, broken. If toward morning… sleep overcomes him as he is reading, in a position quite different from the one in which he usually sleeps [contd...]
— Dec 20, 2013 03:00AM