Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. -
Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting. -
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. -
Over the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations, and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don't fit on your face - they're big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space vacations are real, but they cost $20 million. We have death rays, but you have to be a triple Ph.D. to play with them. -
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
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- A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
- No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
- Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
- Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.