“…death seemed the most prevalent feature of the landscape.”
Blood Meridian (1985)
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Willem Roelofs (1822–1897) Dutch painter and entomologist (1822-1897)
translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek <br class="br">(original Dutch: citaat van Willem Roelofs, in het Nederlands:) Ik geloof beslist dat de natuur die het meest geschikt is om na te schilderen, het eenvoudige landschap is dat weinig indrukwekkend lijkt. <br class="br">as cited in Zó Hollands - Het Hollandse landschap in de Nederlandse kunst sinds 1850, Antoon Erftemeijer https://www.franshalsmuseum.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/zohollands_eindversie_def_1.pdf; Frans Hals museum | De Hallen, Haarlem 2011, p. 16 – note 2 <br class="br">undated quotes
“The prevalence of evil is the darkest and most frightening mystery of the universe.”
Morris West (1916–1999) Australian writer
Cardinal Luca Rossini in Ch. 8
Eminence (1998)
Willem Roelofs (1822–1897) Dutch painter and entomologist (1822-1897)
(original Dutch: citaat van Willem Roelofs, in het Nederlands:) Ik geloof beslist dat de natuur die het meest geschikt is om na te schilderen, het eenvoudige landschap is dat weinig indrukwekkend lijkt.<br>as cited in Zó Hollands - Het Hollandse landschap in de Nederlandse kunst sinds 1850, Antoon Erftemeijer https://www.franshalsmuseum.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/zohollands_eindversie_def_1.pdf; Frans Hals museum | De Hallen, Haarlem 2011, p. 16 – note 2 <br class="br">undated quotes
Per Kirkeby (1938–2018) Danish artist
as quoted in Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Drawings, Helaine Posner, exhibition catalogue (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT List Visual Arts Center, 1992
1965 - 1995
“Competition-ruthless, unforgiving, to-the-death competition-is a crucial feature of capitalism.”
Jim Stanford (1961) Canadian economist
Part 3, Chapter 11, Competition, p. 129
Economics For Everyone (2008)
“Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004) American historian
Introduction, part 2: The Influence of America on the Mind, p. 6.
The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson (1948)
William Shakespeare Julius Caesar
Variant: Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
Source: Julius Caesar