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That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

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That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.
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The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.
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Ayn Rand
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Simplicity is the glory of expression.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world.
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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
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It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
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Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.
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But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.
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Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
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Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
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Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.
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In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.
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Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new.
Donald Judd
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
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Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
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Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.
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In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
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