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O then it was a story as old as war or man,
and although we have not said it we know it,
and although we have not claimed it we do it,
and although we have not vowed it we keep it,
without a name to the end.
— The Unspoken - Edwin Morgan
Perfect has always been a word of both intimidation and fragility. An egg - perfect yet fragile.

Rich Saul Wurman

Perfect has always been a word of both intimidation and fragility. An egg - perfect yet fragile.


Rich Saul Wurman

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
— George Baker
Empty and be full,
Bend and be straight,
Have much and be confused,
Have little and gain everything.
— Chinese Proverb
Affluence offers the kind of freedom I am deeply supicious of. It offers freedom from restraint, and it is virtually impossible to do something without restraints.
— Charles Eames
We should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for it’s own sake, now, and not in preparation for an imaginary future. It’s obvious that the mirth-filled man, the cheerful soul, the childish adult is the one who has least to fear from life.
— ‘The Freedom Manifesto’ Tom Hodgkinson
What is now proved
was once only imagined.
— William Blake
Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.
— Guy Davenport
Each man makes his own world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
But in the still dimmer light of the candlestand, as I gazed at the trays and bowls standing in the shadows cast by the flickering point of a flame, I discovered in the gloss of this laquerware a depth and richness like that of a still, dark pond, a beauty I had not before seen.
— ‘In Praise of Shadows’ Junichiro Tanizaki
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