Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred with their bones.

William Shakespeare

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,Seems nowhere to alight: the whited airHides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end.The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feetDelayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sitAround the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.

Elizabeth Gilbert

My idea of a good night has always been having a lovely meal and a proper conversation.

Kirsty Gallacher

There will be no politics, no ifs and buts if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects.

Ian Botham

I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is steadier and avoids splurges. I like to think I've inherited both sides.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

William Shakespeare

I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is.

Martina Navratilova

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

Elias Canetti

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

Sir Richard Francis Burton