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From Birth to Death through Life

2017-06-19 · 1,468 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

From Birth to Death through Life — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." – Alexander Pope, 'An Essay
From Birth to Death through Life — pen and ink drawing

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"The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." – Alexander Pope, 'An Essay on Man'

"I never knew any debatable point not maintained on both sides by unanswerable arguments" – Letitia Elizabeth Landon, 'Romance and Reality' (1831).

"The incredibly sinister role of the press, the cinema, the radio, has consisted in passing that original reality through a pair of flattening rollers to substitute for it a superimposed pattern of ideas an images with no real roots in the deep being of the subject of this experiment." – Gabriel Marcel, 'Man Against Mass Society' (1952).

"It is not funny that anything else should fall down, only that a man should fall down…

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