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Charlie English
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“Every Autumn now my thoughts return to snow. Snow is something I identify myself with. Like my father, I am a snow person.”
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“In the nineteenth century, Fritjof Nansen wrote that skiing washes civilization clean from our minds by dint of its exhilarating physicality. By extension, I believe that snow helps strip away the things that don't matter. It leaves us thinking of little else but the greatness of nature, the place of our souls within it, and the dazzling whiteness that lies ahead.”
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“In this sense, Hitler´s painting supports [Hannah] Arendt´s theory of National Socialism--that it was defined by its banality and lack of empathy. The Nazis relied on the ability of people not to imagine themselves in someone else´s shoes. The lack of a connection was very much the point.”
― The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler's War on Art
― The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler's War on Art
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