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Translation is the art of failure. - Umberto Eco

Translation is the art of failure. – Umberto Eco

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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. – Umberto Eco

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Nature
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Pictures must not be too picturesque. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Art

In art as in love, instinct is enough. – Anatole France

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Art

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things. – Elbert Hubbard

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Art

People who dont like me talk about it as though Im trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because its 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos arent limited to sailors. Its a form of art I find beautiful. I love it. – Megan Fox

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If I had my life to live again. Id make the same mistakes, only sooner. – Tallulah Bankhead

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We have been god-like in the planned breeding of our domesticated plants, but rabbit-like in the unplanned breeding of ourselves. – Arnold Toynbee

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Environment

Your burden is of false self-identifications—abandon them all. – Nisargadatta Maharaj

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If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars. – Satish Kumar

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