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Winterston 1/5/10

‎”There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.” – Jeanette Winterston

12.25.10 corner

“too much convenience is building an insanity that only art can diffuse.” – Chris Corner, IAMX

12-16-10 wilde

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere’s Fan)

12-10-2010 Dreiser

“The world is always struggling to express itself,” he went on.  “Most people are not capable of voicing their feelings.  They depend on others.  That is what genius is for.  One man expresses their desires for them in music; another one in poetry; another one in a play.  Sometimes nature does it in a face — it makes the face representative of all desire.  That’s what has happened in your case.” – Sister Carrie

12-8-10 camus

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend, they shall never be broken.” – Albert Camus

12-7-10 Wilde (Dorian Gray)

“And beauty is a form of genius–is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.  It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has its divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.” – Lord Henry to Dorian Gray, (Chapter 2, The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde)

12-6-10 The Florist

“What they call its ‘spirit’ is the memory contained in its energy.” – The Florist

12-3-10 Cohen

“There is a crack in everything.
That’s how the light gets in.”
— Leonard Cohen

12-2-10 Rodin

“And for him who has eyes to see, nudity offers the richest meaning.” – Rodin, as quoted by Paul Gsell in “Art”.

10-25-10 Edith Hamilton

“Though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little…” – Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way