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“Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God.”

Art Moments Artist Lost Creativity Creative Worship Glory Former Glory Of God Cords Umbilical Cord

Book:The seventh seal: a film

Source: The seventh seal: a film

“The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug.”

People Heart Whole Moments Faces President Former Agency Employee Conspiracy Cia

Author:Jim Garrison

“We say that we often see animals in our dreams, but we forget that almost always we are ourselves animals therein, deprived of that reasoning power which projects upon things the light of certainty; on the contrary we bring to bear on the spectacle of life only a dubious vision, extinguished anew every moment by oblivion, the former reality fading before that which follows it as one projection of a magic lantern fades before the next as we change the slide.”

Source: Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove

“When one existentially awakens from within, the relation of birth-and-death is not seen as a sequential change from the former to the latter. Rather, living as it is, is no more than dying, and at the same time there is no living separate from dying. This means that life itself is death and death itself is life. That is, we do not shift sequentially from birth to death, but undergo living-dying in each and every moment.”

Mean Moments Dying Birth Relation Former Latter Birth And Death

Book:A Study of Dogen: His Philosophy and Religion

Source: A Study of Dogen: His Philosophy and Religion

“Mitt Romney, two-time Republican presidential hopeful, boxed former heavyweight champion of the world Evander Holyfield for charity. It was a horrible moment when Romney bit off Holyfield's other ear.”

World Two Moments Bits Republican Ears Charity Horrible Former Presidential Champion Hopeful Romney Heavyweights

Author:David Letterman

“Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.”

People Knows May Moments Common Class Know How Middle Crisis Former Latter Middle Class Behaviour Formal Brutes Upper Class Fastidious Uncouth

Author:Cesare Pavese

“What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.”

Self Moments Prayer Former Dislike

Author:Andre Gide

“The eternal task of song can never be finished in a single lifetime. That is the beauty and fascination of the art. Once you begin to phrase finely, you will feel more joy in the beautiful finish of a beautiful phrase than that caused by the loudest applause of an immense audience. The latter excites for a moment; the former endures forever.”

Feels Art Moments Beautiful Joy Song Audience Forever Eternal Tasks Lifetime Endure Finished Former Phrases Latter Immense Fascination Applause Single Life

Author:Nellie Melba