Richard Ellmann quotes
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“Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.”
-- Richard EllmannSource : Richard Ellmann (2013). “Oscar Wilde”, p.510, Vintage
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“A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.”
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“Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way.”
-- Richard Ellmann
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“The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.”
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“Don't look for "depth" but instead search for subject aspects which prove the presence of depth.”
Source : Andreas Feininger (1982). “Total photography”, Not Avail
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“Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.”
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“If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.”
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“Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside.”
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