“Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.”
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Paulo Coelho 844
Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947Related quotes
Quote of Ad Reinhardt (1963); as cited in: Joseph Kosuth, (1969), " Art after Philosophy http://www.ubu.com/papers/kosuth_philosophy.html"
1956 - 1967
Variant: The one thing to say about art is that it is one thing. Art is art-as-art and everything else is everything else. Art as art is nothing but art. Art is not what is not art.

“Words are everything and don't you forget it, ever.”
Source: Three Days Before the Shooting... (2010), p. 251.

“One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.”
Alles, alles kann einer vergessen, nur nicht sich selbst, sein eigenes Wesen.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life

“If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.”
As quoted in Eyewitness to Power (2001) by David Gergen.