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“Discomfort is a pain. Boredom is a pain. A perfect piece of music can reduce us to tears. Every one of these pains is essential to the growth of the soul. Pain is part of the beauty of life. It enriches us.”

Soul Pain Growth Perfect Pieces Tears Essentials Boredom Discomfort Beauty Of Life

Book:How to Wish

Source: How to Wish

“Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order.”

World Matter Order Process Space Pieces Written Materials Essentials Structure Series Written Word Spoken Word

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is hardly essential to their success, and the best and most brilliantly written pieces usually say less than the worst.”

Ifs Would Be Pieces Alive Written Worst Poet Essentials Dylan Texture

Author:Randall Jarrell

“Human beings any one of us, and our species as a whole are not all-important, not at the center of the world. That is the one essential piece of information, the one great secret, offered by any encounter with the woods or the mountains or the ocean or any wilderness or chunk of nature or patch of night sky.”

World Humans Important Whole Night Human Beings Secret Pieces Sky Information Mountain Essentials Ocean Species Woods Encounters Wilderness Patches Night Sky Chunks Center Of The World

Book:The end of nature

Source: The end of nature

“I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.”

Thinking Men Sometimes Values Pieces Sacrifice Talent Essentials Objectives Preserves Great Men Epic Grandeur

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I am excited by this collaboration: this is the first time H&M involves a Fashion Director in a special project. This is the sign of an important evolution in fashion, and I am both thrilled and humbled to be the one chosen to lead it. I wanted to create precious accessories that are impossible to find. As a stylist I know accessorization is essential: it is the personal touch to any outfit. With these pieces everybody can have fun, turning an ordinary day into a fantastic fashion day”

“Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.”

Thinking Littles Real Seems Truth Pieces Fit Essentials Degrees Worship Glory Ears Superiors Attributes Articles Coats Abstraction Intellectualism

Book:The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding

Source: The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding

“I believe the alphabet is no longer considered an essential piece of equipment for traveling through life. In my day it was the keystone to knowledge. You learned the alphabet as you learned to count to ten, as you learned "Now I lay me" and the Lord's Prayer and your father's and mother's name and address and telephone number, all in case you were lost.”

Believe Mother Father Names Lost I Believe Prayer Numbers Lord Knowledge Cases Pieces Ten Essentials Lays Addresses Equipment Telephones Alphabet Keystones

Book:One Writer's Beginnings

Source: One Writer's Beginnings

“This is the essential distinction--even opposition--between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, thefilm objectively. However highly we rate the function of the scenario writer--in actual practice it is rated very low--we must recognize that the film is not transposed directly and freely from the mind by means of a docile medium like paint, but must be cut piece-meal out of the lumbering material of the actual visible world.”

World Mind Mean Film Practice Pieces Cutting Painting Materials Essentials Lows Function Paint Rate Mediums Cinema Meals Visible Distinction Opposition Scenarios Docile

Author:Herbert Read

“People may be said to resemble the pieces of a puzzle, each unique, yet each essential to bring out a complete picture.”

People May Said Pieces Essentials Unique Puzzles

Author:Felix Adler

“Particularly, the actors, to have analyzed the script in great detail from the point of view of their specific character. So that they have a handle on exactly where the character is in the chronology of things. In that sense the actors become your best check on the logic of the piece, and the way in which it all fits together. They become essential collaborators. The main thing is you have to work with very smart actors.”

Way Character Together Actors Views Pieces Fit Essentials Smart Logic Scripts Details Point Of View Handle Checks Very Smart Collaborators Chronology

Author:Christopher Nolan

“No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian's drapery, produce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can by reasoning make you feel it.”

Ifs Feels Pieces Effects Produce Essentials Notes Reasoning Melody Folds

Book:Modern Painters ...: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation

Source: Modern Painters ...: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation