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That's what art is, he said, the story of a life in all its particularity. It's the only thing that really is particular and personal. It's the expression and, at the same time, the fabric of the particular. And what do you mean by the fabric of the particular? I asked, supposing he would answer: Art. I was also thinking, indulgently, that we were pretty drunk already and that it was time to go home. But my friend said: What I mean is the secret story ... The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter. But every damn thing matters! It's just that we don't realize. We tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, we don't even realize that's a lie. — Roberto Bolano

Love has an effect few other things have: to empower you with happiness, and at the same time, strip you of all power, making you a prisoner of fear. — Layla Hagen

The Eagles's 1977 hit "Hotel California" was a flawless piece of craftsmanship, but it was about upscale fatalism and gilded cages, about the hotel you can check into but never leave. It sounded as though Joan Didion had started writing lyrics. As — Rebecca Solnit

The foot of the heavenly ladder, which we have got to mount in order to reach the higher regions, has to be fixed firmly in every-day life, so that everybody may be able to climb up it along with us. When people then find that they have got climbed up higher and higher into a marvelous, magical world, they will feel that that realm, too, belongs to their ordinary, every-day life, and is, merely, the wonderful and most glorious part thereof. — E.T.A. Hoffmann

I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that this country offers. — Patrick Chan

When I violate one point of God's law, I bring myself into opposition to God Himself. — R.C. Sproul

I painted sets before I ever performed. — Christopher Guest

It made me comfortable. It was a house where you could put your feet up and drink French champagne or Ballarat Bitter according to your mood. — Peter Carey

Civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and woman. — Joseph P. Bradley

The way that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform, determined to do something. — Suzy Menkes

We as a family have decided to do this our way, rather than try to survive what is coming. I apologize to the police officers who have enough to do, but we took our own lives. We see what is going to happen, and the hell on earth is beyond comprehension. Have a nice day. Rudy, Diana, Michael and Tiffany Samuels. — Al Halsey

Unless some people are commissioned for the task, there will be no gospel preachers; unless the gospel is preached, sinners will not hear Christ's message and voice; unless they hear him, they will not believe the truths of his death and resurrection; unless they believe these truths, they will not call on him; and unless they call on his name, they will not be saved. — John R.W. Stott