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The sublimity of color in Hodgkin's pictures can be thought of as, first of all, expressive of gratitude for the world that resists and survives the ego and its discontents.
Susan Sontag
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The army causes taxes, the taxes cause discontents, & the discontents are alledged to make an army necessary. Thus you go in a circle.


— Cited in John Brewer, The Sinews of Power 8-10 (1988)

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Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ladder of St. Augustine, Stanza 2

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