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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. Sigmund Freud, author

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“Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.” John Baldessari, 1931-2020

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Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. Clarice Lispector, writer

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Why shouldn’t we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music, some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world? Elizabeth Bishop, writer, “Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters”

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Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others. Robert Hass, poet

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When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist Friedrich Schiller, poet, philosopher, playwright

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Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason. William Hazlitt, painter, writer, critic, philosopher, “Sketches and Essays”

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“If you were to take what seems to matter [from] movies, I would say male violence against other men is very high on that list.” Greta Gerwig, Director

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“All right, the world is full of idiots and they’re in control of everything. You fool, stay alive to annoy them!” Erich Kästner, German, poet

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You’re born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation. Nora Ephron. writer, filmmaker

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