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“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

— Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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Decay

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Decay

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Pencil+Eraser

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“Beautiful things of any kind are beautiful in themselves and sufficient to themselves. Praise is extraneous. The object of praise remains what it was — no better and no worse.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (4.20)

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“Hell and heaven are within you, both gates are within you. When you are behaving unconsciously there is the gate of hell; when you become alert and conscious, there is the gate of heaven.”

— Osho

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Tommy Hilding (Swedish, b. 1954), Granser / Borders, 2005. Oil on linen, 72 x 54 in.

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“An unconscious relationship is more powerful than a conscious one.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

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“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”

— David Hume, Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary

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“Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive—to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfilment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before.”

— Rollo May

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“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world—all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls.”

— Carl Jung

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“We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden