Quotes of Petrifaction - somelinesforyou

“ For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own. ”

- Caroline Lejeune

“ I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a "will to renewal." This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of "crises" — of rupture, repudiation and resistance… ”

- Eugene Ionesco
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