What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art?

Michel Foucault — On the Genealogy of Ethics

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It is not length of life, but depth of life. Cut these questionings short, and accept the universe as it is, and work in it rather than to understand it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson — Journals

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I had hoped, while my kids were still kids, that we'd live in Texas for a year, that they'd know something of my childhood—not just America generally, but something about the neighborhood I grew up in and the space and the year-round warm weather that makes childhood an outdoor sport, and not an indoor one as it is in England from October onward.

Ben Markovits

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