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“Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.”

Art Jobs Left Circumstances Standards Ordinary Disappear Left Alone

Author:Michael Kimmelman

“If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.”

Ifs Mean Art Perfect Powerful Identity Photography Ordinary Aspect Absolutes Disappear Drawing Closest Scrutiny Resemblance Absolute Truth Microscopes Photogenic

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams.”

Men Dream Might Eye Difficult Ordinary Disappear His Eyes Trembling

Author:Anais Nin

“It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem, I was grieving for the loss of my old barbershop in Manhattan, and wondering at the strangeness of my new one. I didn't have any idea the poem would break into the underworld, opening a deeper subject: the continuing force of the old griefs routine helps to mediate, and my strange, sheer wonder at my own survival. Where's home now? In the contingent present, in which anything can disappear, and where we're sometimes granted some form of grace.”

“I think that those of us who are ordinary disappear easily into the backdrop of life and we take things for granted. We often wake up in our lives and wonder how we got there. But the characters I create, the people I am drawn to, are quite extraordinary (and not always in wholesome ways), and they offer us the chance to understand who we really are and how we became who we are.”

People Thinking Way Character Chance Wonder Our Lives Offers Ordinary Wake Up Extraordinary Disappear Granted Who We Are Backdrop Taking Things For Granted

Author:Chris Abani

“The West, both the elites (consciously) and ordinary people (sub-consciously), want Russia to go to hell; to disappear, drown, explode. It is because Russia is once again defending humanism all over the world.”

People World Want Hell Ordinary West Humanism Disappear Russia Elites Ordinary People Go To Hell

Author:Andre Vltchek

“In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, He asks us to be strong and take courage. What is courage? As Ordinary discovered, courage is not the absence of fear; rather, it's choosing to act in spite of the fear. You could say that without fear, you can't have genuine courage.”

Asks Strong Ordinary Disappear Absence Genuine Spite

Author:Bruce Wilkinson

“That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror and just like disappearing. Every Indian learns how to be a magician and learns how to misdirect attention and the dark hand is always quicker than the white eye and no matter how close you get to my heart you will never find out my secrets and I'll never tell you and I'll never show you the same trick twice. I'm traveling heavy with illusions.”

Source: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

“But there's a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be impossible in this very ordinary world is very possible there, and sometimes the boundaries between the two worlds disappear, and then who can say what is possible and impossible?”

World May Two Sometimes Law Impossible Ordinary Disappear Boundaries Live By Two Worlds Possible And Impossible World Life Ordinary World

Book:Pawn Of Prophecy: Book One Of The Belgariad

Source: Pawn Of Prophecy: Book One Of The Belgariad

“There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off.”

Littles Helping Magic Stupid Like You Ordinary Everyday Folks Disappear Miles Noise Elephants

Book:The Hobbit

Source: The Hobbit

“He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.”

Ideas Beautiful Ordinary Disappear No Idea

Book:How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity

Source: How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity

“The relaxation should not be a method. You should not relax through a Yoga posture. This very understanding is relaxing, this very understanding is relaxation. You relax, effort disappears. You live your ordinary life - you chop wood and you carry water from the well and you cook food and you eat and you sleep and you love and you live ordinarily with no hankering and no desire for anything extraordinary.”

Should Wells Desire Understanding Water Sleep Effort Ordinary Yoga Method Extraordinary Woods Disappear Cooks Relax Relaxation Posture Ordinary Life Hankering

Author:Rajneesh

“To be ordinary is the greatest virtue - because when you are just ordinary, nothing to claim, of this world or that, the ego disappears. The ego feeds on imbalance, the ego feeds on extremes. The ego lives on the polarities - in the middle it disappears. And in every area, in every direction of life, remember this: just stop in the middle and soon you will find the mind has stopped, the ego has stopped. Nothing to claim, it disappears. And when it disappears you have become virtuous. Now the door is open for the divine. In the middle you meet him; at the extremes you miss.”

World Mind Remember Virtue Doors Middle Missing This World Divine Ego Ordinary Areas Claims Extremes Disappear Virtuous Imbalance Polarity

Author:Rajneesh