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Mirror, Mirror....

2017-09-07 · 2,348 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

Mirror, Mirror.... — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking." – John Maynard Keynes, New Sta
Mirror, Mirror.... — pen and ink drawing

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"Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking." – John Maynard Keynes, New Statesman and Nation (15 July 1933).

"The more skillfully the language of goodness is assumed, the greater the depravity." – Publius Syrus

"Omnis mundi creatura Quasi liber et pictura Nobis est, et speculum." [All creation, like a book or a picture, is a mirror to us.] – Alain de Lille, in 'De Incarnatione Christi' (c. 1170).

"Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos — to the unknown — which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination. The humanocentric pose is impossible to me, for I cannot acquire the primitive myopia which…

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