He said:
I'm sorry, I'm not the one with whom everything is easy.
I looked at him in surprise:
Who said I need simplicity? I don't want simplicity, I crave a damn puzzle.
“That’s it.” A simple phrase that held so much meaning...
A simple hypothesis can be wrong, but it’s something to build on.
The simplest explanation is usually the right one.
I remember going into the garden with my mother and picking tomatoes... Really ripe, red ones in August. Bringing them into the kitchen, still warm from the sun. She'd put slices on fresh bread, add good olive oil, sea salt and fresh ground pepper and say: "Jacques, you'll never eat better". She was right. The best food in the world is straight from the garden with very little done to it. Authentic.
You're a very serious young woman... I didn't quite mean it as a compliment. It sounds as though you're hurrying somewhere in such a way that the journey will yield very little pleasure. Slow down. College should not necessarily be about narrowing your focus. It's about broadening your experience.
Sometimes I wish it was as simple as this postcard somebody sent me once.
Complications set in — yes, complications. How many times have we heard: 'it's simple'. Nothing is simple. We live in a world where nothing is simple. Each day, just when we think we have a handle on things, suddenly some new element is introduced and everything is complicated once again. What is the secret? What is the secret to simplicity, to the pure and simple life? Are our appetites, our desires undermining us? Is the cart in front of the horse?
Explanation:
Introduction by Margaret Lanterman
Simplicity, truth and naturalness are the three great principles of beauty in all works of art.
Quite simple. Too simple for a learned lore-master in these suspicious days.
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