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Art Is Philosophy
An artist from Odessa, Valentin Zakharchenko could not take his large painting “The blind ones” (1978) out of his dilapidated house in 2012, so his painting had to be cut in two pieces.
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What you knew in your childhood is true; the Otherworld of magic and enchantment is real, sometimes terribly real — and certainly more real than the factual reality which our culture has built up, brick by brick, to shut out colour and light and prevent us from flying.”
― Patrick Harpur
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…Physics is good for many things, while philosophy is good for nothing…That’s why I’m a philosopher: because it’s useless to be one….But, of course, it doesn’t matter. You are free to choose between these two things: either to be a philosopher or to be a sleepwalker. “
Jose Ortega and Gasset
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“Hold this thought: Right when you are most defeated — suicidal, perhaps — exhausted, positive of perpetual failure: this is when the epiphany is likely to arrive….Whatever is bearing down on you is a great teacher. Calm down and listen and crawl from beneath it a better person.”
— Harold Pinter
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“Ordinarily I go to the woods alone…I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours.”
— Mary Oliver
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Self-acceptance is terribly difficult and is…the primary obsession of mine. It is the ultimate sin, you’ll find, to ignore or to deny…
