To ask why is to impose expectations on mute existence - expectations it is in no way obliged to meet or even extend. And so I make no more, ask no more.
Return of the Crimson Guard (2008)
“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.”
Source: Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972
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