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Her preparedness is a defense of sanity, but theirs seems to suggest that they are engaged in some enterprise so dangerous that it is madness.
AN ARTIST IS A MATHEMATICIAN WHO KNOWS THE FORMULAS OF THE SOUL
My point is, it’s clear to me that any great artist—musician, painter, sculptor, a fine prose stylist—is on a subconscious level a mathematician and a carpenter and a mason and an engineer. A great artist intuitively understands how the world is built and how it works and how people best fit into it. That’s how they’re able to create beauty—because they know the truth of things. An artist is a mathematician who knows the formulas of the soul. ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty.’”
The curious are called meddlesome; they are accorded no respect and little mercy.
The cry is the voice of nihilism personified, an insane and ferociously empty scream of rage at the very fact that the world exists.
This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper.’”
a satori, a sudden enlightenment that might relieve her stress.
