#chaos

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses. ↗

— Isabel Allende

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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. ↗

— Henry Adams

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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. ↗

— Balthus

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The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#chaos #felt #home #household #i

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. ↗

— Melody Beattie

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All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time. ↗

— Otto Dix

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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. ↗

— Will Durant

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One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#art #chaos #coherent #feels #important

The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#anarchy #away #break #break up #cannot