#marvelous

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#dealing #generalities #history #illusions #impossible

Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls. ↗

— Rudolf Otto

#bear #become #carved #dim #eyes

I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous. ↗

— Anne Perry

#challenge #find #i #i am #marvelous

I have eaten very well in Los Angeles. Marvelously! ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

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Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bitterness #cold #coldness #difficulties #discernment

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#find #marvelous #mundane #piercing

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#both #characterizes #evil #exceptional #forced

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then. ↗

— Hazel Scott

#children #explain #know #marvelous #marvelous thing

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human. ↗

— Man Ray

#create #creates #creation #desire #divine