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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the

What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

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Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. – John Updike

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The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. – John Updike

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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – John Updike

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We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath. – Laurence Binyon

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We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our atmosphere. If we inhibit our breathing we isolate ourselves from the medium in which we exist. In all Oriental and mystic philosophies, the breath holds the secret to the highest bliss. – Alexander Lowen

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I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am. – Sylvia Plath

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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. – Sanskrit Proverb

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