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“Be it sculpture, poetry, or narrative fraught with terrible insight... art does endure. It troubles and pleases, inspires, and reminds us that humanity is ever capable of adding to the sum of the world's grave beauty.”

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Epicurean Simplicity

Epicurean Simplicity explores the philosophy of living a life of contentment through simplicity and the appreciation of basic joys. The book offers practical advice and insights into adopting an Epicurean approach to everyday living. more

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Stephanie Mills

Stephanie Mills is an American singer known for her distinctive voice and musical talent. Born on March 22, 1957, she has been active in the music industry since the 1970s. Mills' musical style blends soul, jazz, and gospel, and her songs often convey positive messages and deep emotions. more

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“A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them.”

Way Needs Persons Enjoy Possibility Findings Delight Bored Complexity Boredom Fathom

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“Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.”

Heart Conditions My Heart Despair Delight Desperation Respectable

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“Friendships offer good practice in accepting the transience of experience and the persistence of feeling.”

Feelings Friendship Accepting Practice Offers Persistence Transience

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“It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.”

May Doe Age Information Equal More Money Overwhelmed Information Age

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“A life alert to simple pleasures, with perception cultivated and attuned to beauty, and a large capacity for friendship can serve us well come what may.”

Wells May Simple Pleasure Perception Capacity Simple Pleasures

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“Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.”

Self Voice Natural Music Expression Jazz Here And Now Self Expression

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“Enjoying the least things - a chill glass of water, a moment of play with the cat, the sight of sunlight caught in the frost spangling the locust twigs - is a form of prayer.”

Play Moments Form Enjoy Water Prayer Cat Sight Glasses Caught Sunlight Chill Frost Twigs

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“It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make good work out of the life, whether that goodness is in the world's aesthetics, its radicalism, its candor, its singularity, or its universality.”

World Desire Artist Responsibility Duty Discipline Goodness Work Out Good Work Aesthetics Singularity Candor Muster Universality Radicalism

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“Solitude is rich but seldom hilarious.”

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“My spirituality is parochial, terrestrial. I do qualify as a W.I.T.C.H. , but my irrecular practice and impromptu rituals don't aim at producing any dramatic results except, perhaps, in me.”

Spirituality Results Practice Aim Dramatic Ritual

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