Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

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"You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught."

- Boris Pasternak

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- Boris Pasternak

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"Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life."

- Boris Pasternak

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"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

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"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

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"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

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"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

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