A garland of quotations LX
As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realizes that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.
•E. M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born (1973).
Rome rose with the idiom of Caesar, Ovid, and Tacitus, she declined in a welter of rhetoric, the diplomat’s “language to conceal thought,” and so forth. ¶The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country le...
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