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«Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.»
Author: Claude Monet
| Keywords:
analyzing, appropriately, automatically, Caught in The Act, deathbed, deathbeds, focusing, graded, grades, imposing, motionless, obsession, succession, temples, torment
«If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth»
Author: Gerald Vann
| About:
Church,
History,
Truth
| Keywords:
distorting, History of the, scandals, succession
«Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.»
Author: J. Donald Walters
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
brilliant, climax, grim, In The Moment, succession
«I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.»
Author: Billie Holiday
| Keywords:
close-order drill, close order, drill, drilled, drilling, let alone, nights, succession, two-year, yodel, yodeling
«I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a 'will to renewal'. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of 'crises', of rupture, re»
Author: Eugene Ionesco
| About:
Art,
Culture,
History
| Keywords:
crises, decade, history of art, last decade, prerogative, prerogatives, rupture, ruptured, succession
«Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Admiration,
Discovery
| Keywords:
admiration, decays, discoveries, familiar with, Fed, feed upon, fresh, rising, short-lived, succession
«A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
| Keywords:
contemplation, poverty-stricken, Sight and Sound, stricken, succession, The Search
«A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them. That is, he does not draw on a reservoir; instead, he engages in an activity that brings to him a whole succession of unforeseen stories, poems, essays, plays, laws, philosophies, religions . . .»
Author: William Stafford
| Keywords:
bring about, engages, essay, Essays, philosophies, poems, reservoir, reservoirs, succession, unforeseen
«A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
almost, days, except, ordinary, stand, succession
«His (a player's) conversation usually threatened and announced more than it performed; that he fed you with a continual renovation of hope, to end in a constant succession of disappointment»
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