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• media saturation is probably very destructive to art. New movements get overexposed and exhausted before they have a chance to grow, and they turn to ashes in a short time. Some degree of time and obscurity is often very necessary to artists.

  Joyce Johnson

  Art, Media, Degrees

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• Y is for YGGDRASIL. The legendary Nordic ash tree with its three roots extending into the lands of mortals, giants, and Niflheim, the land of mist, grows in Wisconsin. Legend has it that when the tree falls, the universe will fall. Next Wednesday, the State Highway Commission comes through that empty pasture with a freeway.

  Harlan Ellison

  Fall, Roots, Land

  Harlan Ellison (1978). “Strange wine: fifteen new stories from the nightside of the world”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Ash has worked with my dad, so I have to call her Aunty, na?

  Sonam Kapoor

  Dad, My Dad

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• There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.

  Fidel Castro

  Fall, Waiting, Smoking Cigars

  Fidel Castro (1969). “Fidel Castro Speaks”

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• O, how much those men are to be valued who, in the spirit with which the widow gave up her two mites, have given up themselves! How their names sparkle! How rich their very ashes are! How they will count up in heaven!

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Names, Two

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• The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with it; the beech shrieks; the elm sends forth a long, deep groan; the ash pours out moans of thrilling anguish.

  Thomas Starr King

  Wind, Long, Anguish

  Thomas Starr King (1866). “The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry”, p.91

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• My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes, the ashes. My pictures, after all, are only the title-deeds to my property which I have to produce when I am asked to prove that I am a proprietor.

  Yves Klein

  Creative, Preparation, Titles

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• Nevertheless, the liturgy of Ash Wednesday is not focussed on the sinfulness of the penitent but on the mercy of God. The question of sinfulness is raised precisely because this is a day of mercy, and the just do not need a savior.

  Thomas Merton

  Mercy Of God, Needs, Ash Wednesday

  Thomas Merton (1976). “Meditations on liturgy”

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• Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We are nothing, but dust and to dust we shall return. Amen.

  Alexander Anderson

  Dust, Return, Amen

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• Humans are made from nuclear ash of dead stars

  Jenny Downham

  Stars, Nuclear, Made

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• It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a convent or monastery attached; for arches in ruins, remains of oriel windows, and fragments of blackened walls, were yet standing-, while other portions of the old building, which had crumbled away and fallen down, were mingled with the churchyard earth and overgrown with grass, as if they too claimed a burying-place and sought to mix their ashes with the dust of men.

  Charles Dickens

  Wall, Men, Dust

  Charles Dickens (1868). “The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces”, p.211

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• So we must love, while these moments are still called today, take part in the pain of this passion play, stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust, until time makes history of us.

  Emily Saliers

  Pain, Passion, Dust

  Don E. Saliers, Emily Saliers (2005). “A song to sing, a life to live: reflections on music as spiritual practice”, Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

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• Meantime, the world in which we exist has other aims. But it will pass away, burnt up in the fire of its own hot passions; and from its ashes will spring a new and younger world, full of fresh hope, woth the light of morning in its eyes.

  Bertrand Russell

  Morning, Spring, Eye

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Roads to Freedom”, p.154, Routledge

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• I like filmmakers that try to touch upon the metaphysical, the things that are behind all this, that you can't actually physically interact with, but are somehow intuitively there. Maybe you can see the ashes of that fire or the echoes of something happening on a domain not-here, whether that be coincidence, whether that be familiarity with somebody who's a stranger.

  Mike Cahill

  Fire, Echoes, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you make something fetish, ashes and dusts will laugh at you, because they know even the most valuable fetishes will turn into dusts and ashes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dust, Laughing, Valuable

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• Between lips and lips there are cities of great ash and moist summit, drops of when and how, vague comings and goings: between lips and lips as along a shore of sand and glass the wind passes.

  Pablo Neruda

  Glasses, Wind, Cities

  Pablo Neruda (1990). “Selected Poems”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no morality in the mushroom cloud. The black rain of nuclear ashes will fall alike on the just and the unjust. And then it will be too late to wish that we had done the real work of this atomic age, which is to seek a world that is neither red nor dead.

  Edward Kennedy

  Real, Rain, Fall

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• After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in the ashes you will never learn anything about the fire: by the time the ashes can be handled the meaning has passed on. Every adventure is a cup so empty it can be drunk from again and again and again. Every adventure is so perfect it verges on silence.

  M. John Harrison

  Adventure, Fire, Drunk

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• God scorns and mocks the devil, in setting under his very nose a poor, weak, human creature, mere dust and ashes, yet endowed with the firstfruits of the Spirit, against whom the devil can do nothing.

  Martin Luther

  Dust, Devil, Noses

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.48

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• It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which...you may find really marvellous ideas.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wall, Fire, Clouds

  Quoted in Irma A Richter (ed) Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1977).

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• Thoth, Hermes, the stylus,
  the palette, the pen, the quill endure,
  though our books are a floor
  of smouldering ash under our feet.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Book, Feet, Quills

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.518, New Directions Publishing

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• We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

  Winston Churchill

  London, Ruins, Should

  Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

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• My paintings are only the ashes of my art

  Yves Klein

  Art, Painting

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• You catch a fairly young field-vole and flay it... We take the skin, when Venus stands in the sign of the scorpion, and combust the skin... Now take the ash, which you got this way, and pepper it out on the fields.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Scary, Skins, Scorpions

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• But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Solitude, Lust

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