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Art is in the soul of a crisis
“Plausible reasons have never been lacking for putting off all merely cultural activities until some imminent danger has been averted or some crying injustice put right. But humanity long ago chose to neglect those plausible reasons. They wanted knowledge and beauty now, and would not wait for the suitable moment that never comes…They propound mathematical theorems in beleaguered cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on scaffolds, discuss the last new poem while…
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“The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.” – Albert Einstein
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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” ― Sylvia Plath
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“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
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“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”– Leonardo Da Vinci
