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Fuck tomorrow.

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~~Quotes~~

"Sanity is the playground of the unimaginative."

"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude." Nietzsche

"Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero."
(Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.)

"Not all who wander are lost."

"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats."

"Wit is educated insolence."

"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable."

"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."

"The artist has one funtion--to affirm and glorify life."

"Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions."

"The soul is that within me no man can degrade."

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." Gandhi

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." Confucious

"It is not length of life, but depth of life." Emerson

"Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly." Peter

"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others." Camus

"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one." Cooley

"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness." Eastman

"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed." Gibran

"Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness." Lewis

"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."

"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by someone else's rules, while quietly playing by your own."

"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."

"Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint."

"A poet is someone who is astonished by everything."

"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great."

"Men are like floor tiles. If you lay them right the first time, you can walk on them forever."

"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."

"Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself." Plato

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud

"In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.

I said, "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter--bitter," he answered;
"But I like it
Because it is bitter
And because it is my heart."
---Stephen Crane