Quote by Thomas Merton
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same ti

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton

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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. – Thomas Merton

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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. – Thomas Merton

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Art is not living. It is the use of living. – Audre Lorde

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Art hath an enemy called ignorance. – Ben Jonson

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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. – Jean Cocteau

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I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I cant help it. Its the truth. – Charlie Chaplin

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We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. – Thomas Merton

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