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Quote by Saint Augustine
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself f

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed… And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. – Saint Augustine

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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. – Saint Augustine

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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. – Saint Augustine

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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. – John Ruskin

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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me. – Ziggy Marley

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When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive. – Jasper Johns

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Ive learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work. – Louis C. K.

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