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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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Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it. – Thomas Merton

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Future
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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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Love
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I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste. – Jerry Saltz

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Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. – Andre Maurois

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A painting that is well composed is half finished. – Pierre Bonnard

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The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. – Cyril Connolly

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I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. Thats the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. – J. D. Salinger

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Physics is imagination in a straight jacket. – John Moffat

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I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really arent huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. – Paula Cole

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That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they dont understand. – Mary Wesley

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