{"id":21068,"date":"2013-07-06T11:19:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T17:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=21068"},"modified":"2013-07-10T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T21:40:10","slug":"21068","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=21068","title":{"rendered":"Still picking up quotes…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.<\/p>\n

-Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cArt is a jealous mistress.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nR.W. Emerson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cA sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nR.W. Emerson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cI\u2019d say go to hell, but I never want to see you again.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nSylvia Plat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe rose is a rose,
\nAnd was always a rose.
\nBut the theory now goes
\nThat the apple\u2019s a rose.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nRobert Frost<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cIt would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nAlbert Einstein<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cAn eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance with joy.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nR.W. Emerson<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cA man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nR.W. Emerson<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cIf you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nVincent Van Gogh<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cWhy do we love the sea?
\nIt is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nRobert Henri<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cAnd yet I demand
\nthat your heart survive
\non its own,
\nbelonging only to itself,
\nwhole, entirely whole,
\nand workable
\nin its dark cavern under your ribs.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nAnne Sexton<\/em>\u00a0– The Complete Poems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cAt least half of your mind is always thinking, I\u2019ll be leaving; this won\u2019t last. It\u2019s a good Buddhist attitude. It prepares you for life as a Buddhist. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I\u2019m just sad.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nAnne Carson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cPerhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nDavid Foster Wallace<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cFreedom is nothing but a chance to be better.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nAlbert Camus<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963) \u201cArt is a jealous mistress.\u201d \u2014 R.W. Emerson \u201cA sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.\u201d \u2014 R.W. Emerson \u201cI\u2019d say go to hell, but I never want to see you again.\u201d \u2014 … Continue reading Still picking up quotes…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21068"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21070,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21068\/revisions\/21070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}