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“Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.”
― Diaries, 1910-1923
― Diaries, 1910-1923
“When all is said and done scholars can do no more than find in nature what is already there.”
― The Journal of Eugene Delacroix
― The Journal of Eugene Delacroix
“One should embrace the artist's profession only after recognising in oneself an intense passion for Nature and the disposition to pursue it with a perseverance that nothing can shatter - thirst for neither approval nor financial profit. Do not be discouraged by the censure that might fall upon one's works - one must be armoured with a strong conviction which makes one go straight ahead fearing no obstacle. An unremitting task […] an unassailable conscience. (From a sketchbook of 1847).”
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“There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.”
― The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations
― The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations
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