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1 " [I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives. "
― Richard M. Weaver , Ideas Have Consequences
2 " My face responds without authorization from my brain, so the resulting smile feels like the biggest, most unguarded, goofiest smile I’ve ever unleashed in my entire life. I didn’t even know my face could do this. It’s like there were hidden zippers in my cheeks. Jesus. This must be what feelings are. This is why people write poems! I get it now. I get it, and I want more. "
― Laini Taylor , Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2.5)
3 " The reason for the existence of the perfection conjured up in these fourteen lines is that it possesses ... the authorization to form a message that appeals from within itself. This power of appeal is exquisitely evident in the object evoked here. The perfect thing is that which articulates an entire principle of being. The poem has to perform no more and no less than to perceive the principle of being in the thing and adapt it to its own existence - with the aim of becoming a construct with an equal power to convey a message. "
― Peter Sloterdijk , You Must Change Your Life
