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Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.


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Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.
         



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The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.



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Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.



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Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the wood, the sea, the desert.



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If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.



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There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.



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Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.



Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.

Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.



Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.



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In every work of art, the artist himself is present.





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