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“If you really love life you're walking in the shadow of death all the time...Death is the shadow of life, and the more one is obsessed with life the more one is obsesses with death. I'm greedy for life and I'm greedy as an artist.
Francis Bacon in conversation in Daniel Farson”
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Francis Bacon in conversation in Daniel Farson”
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“MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children, is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak.”
― Delphi Collected Works of Francis Bacon (Illustrated)
― Delphi Collected Works of Francis Bacon (Illustrated)
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“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few books to be read wholly, and with diligence and attraction.”
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