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abstracting

«Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground»
«Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.»
«Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.»
«Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic»
«Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts»
«There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.»
«Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.»
«The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you must allure the senses to it»
«There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.»
«I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.»

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