The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
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The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.
To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.
A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.
Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and pointless. But if one insists in a photograph that is both complex and vigorous it is almost impossible
It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.
Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again.
There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.
Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.
Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.
It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.
The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.
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