Like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

Toni Morrison · Sula (1973)

Me, I'm going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.

Toni Morrison · The source reads: “I know what every colored woman in this country is doing.… Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I'm going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.” · Sula (1973)

I have loved only you, surrendered my whole self reckless to you and nobody else.

Toni Morrison · The source reads: “That I have loved only you, surrendered my whole self reckless to you and nobody else.” · The narrator's confession on the last page of Jazz, envying the lovers their public love and wishing she could say this out loud.

Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names.

Toni Morrison · Nobel Prize lecture (December 7, 1993)

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All gardening is landscape-painting.

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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

Bertrand Russell

Only as an aesthetic phenomenon is existence and the world eternally justified.

Friedrich Nietzsche · The Birth of Tragedy (1872)

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“Like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.”

“Me, I'm going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.”

“I have loved only you, surrendered my whole self reckless to you and nobody else.”

“Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names.”

“All gardening is landscape-painting.”

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.”

“Only as an aesthetic phenomenon is existence and the world eternally justified.”