From: Lisa Bielawa
Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2001 10:54 AM
Subject: this week's sustenance

Hi guys - more of what has been keeping me going. Much love, Lisa


"Art always serves beauty, and beauty is delight in form, and form is the key to organic life, since no living thing can exist without it, so that every work of art, including tragedy, expresses the joy of existence."

"Life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it."

"Man is born to live, not to prepare for life."

"To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune. To do nothing and to despair is to neglect our duty."

-- Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

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"I used to believe that only
when my heart burned
in the storm's thorns,
only when the rain drenched
my suit
in the livid land of mourning,
only if I closed my eyes
to the rose
and touched the wound,
only if I shared all the pain,
was I helping humanity.
I was wrong.
I walked into the mistake,
And today I call out to you, happiness."

--Pablo Neruda, "Ode to Happiness"