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1. "In the early twelfth century century the Virgin had been the supreme protectress of civilisation. She had taught a race of tough and ruthless barbarians the virtues of tenderness and compassion. The great cathedrals of the Middle Ages were her dwelling places upon earth. In the Renaissance, while remaining the Queen of Heaven, she became also the human mother in whom everyone could recognise qualities of warmth and love and approachability...The stabilising, comprehensive religions of the world, the religions which penetrate to every part of a man's being--in Egypt, India or China--gave the female principle of creation at least as much importance as the male, and wouldn't have taken seriously a philosophy that failed to include them both...It's a curious fact that theall-male religions have produced no religious imagery--in most cases have positively forbidden it. The great religious art of the world is deeply involved with the female principle." ~ Kenneth Clark
2. "All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war." ~ Kenneth Clark
3. "No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals." ~ Kenneth Clark
4. "Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable." ~ Kenneth Clark
5. "Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process." ~ Kenneth Clark
6. "The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people." ~ Kenneth Clark
7. "We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs." ~ Kenneth Clark
8. "A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know." ~ Kenneth Clark
9. "Lives devoted to Beauty seldom end well." ~ Kenneth Clark
10. "At certain epochs, man has felt conscious of something about himself - body and spirit - which was outside the day-to-day struggle for existence and the night-to-night struggle with fear; and he has felt the need to develop these qualities of thought and feeling so that they might approach as nearly as possible to an ideal of perfection - reason, justice, physical beauty, all of them in equilibrium. He has managed to satisfy this need in various ways - through myths, through dance and song, through systems of philosophy and through the order that he has imposed upon the visible world." ~ Kenneth Clark
11. "It would be unfair to say that I prefer the back of a book to its contents, but it is true that the sight of a lot of books gives me the hope that I may some day read them, which sometimes develops into the belief that I have read them." ~ Kenneth Clark

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I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore."
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