Marion Milner quotes
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“The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.”
-- Marion MilnerSource : Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.33, Taylor & Francis
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“Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar, are perhaps forgotten by most people; or else they are guarded in some secret place of memory because they were too much like visitations by the gods to be mixed with everyday thinking.”
-- Marion MilnerSource : Marion Milner (2005). “The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men: Forty-Four Years of Exploring Psychoanalysis”, p.66, Routledge
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“I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.”
-- Marion MilnerSource : Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.62, Taylor & Francis
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“I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking.”
-- Marion MilnerSource : Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.27, Taylor & Francis
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“Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.”
-- Marion MilnerSource : Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.157, Taylor & Francis
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“Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.”
-- Marion MilnerSource : Marion Milner (2010). “On Not Being Able To Paint”, p.183, Routledge
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“Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.”
-- Marion MilnerSource : Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.89, Taylor & Francis
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“It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.”
-- Marion MilnerSource : Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.19, Taylor & Francis
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“There seemed to be endless obstacles - it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.”
-- Marion MilnerSource : Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.157, Taylor & Francis
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“I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.”
-- Marion MilnerSource : Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.57, Routledge
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“The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.”
-- Marion Milner
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