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“Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.”
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“The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present.
Life, if well spent, is long.”
― Leonardo's Notebooks
Life, if well spent, is long.”
― Leonardo's Notebooks
“Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.”
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“A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with the other waves.”
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“If the painter has clumsy hands, he will be apt to introduce them into his works, and so of any other part of his person, which may not happen to be so beautiful as it ought to be. He must, therefore, guard particularly against that self-love, or too good opinion of his own person, and study by every means to acquire the knowledge of what is most beautiful, and of his own defects, that he may adopt the one and avoid the other.”
― A Treatise on Painting
― A Treatise on Painting
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