Just be natural and gay and light-hearted and pretty and simple and overflowing and general and baroque and bare and austere and stylized and wild and daring and conservative, and learn and learn and learn.
Open your minds to every form of beauty.
I thought, if I have to choose between beautiful and boring or old and fun, I’d rather have old and fun.
Clothes called to clothes, cutting out words and greetings.
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Richard Cobb, on the evening train from London to Tunbridge Wells, ca. 1930
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Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.
It’s great when you finally realise that being miserable doesn’t protect you from bad stuff happening.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Wit is cold. It has to be cold. Wit is judgement.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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Anatole France
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It isn’t necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that’s what makes it so boring.
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 Edward Gorey
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Innovation is not a goal. Selling pants is a goal.
The whole world is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things.
And thinking of quitting is just keeping going in disguise. When you have options, anything is bearable.
