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With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#reveals #travel #unknown #you #yourself

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet. ↗

— Aristide Maillol

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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect. ↗

— Maimonides

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Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous. ↗

— Maimonides

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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. (moby dick chap 29 p123) ↗

— Herman Melville

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It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems. ↗

— Maimonides

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