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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.
In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.
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Ada Louise Huxtable
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