#artificial

To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface? ↗

— Anne Parillaud

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A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time. ↗

— Jacques Santer

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#artist #comment #condition #creates #force

The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change. ↗

— Edward Levi

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