Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back of the line the stronger, and therefore more beautiful, the line will be.

Robert Henri
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It is true that we are saturated with life. We live and die and live again and we never stop. Our lives are like a perpetual motion machine: we keep moving forward, with no end to the line. And since we cannot see past the end, we do not know how beautiful it is.

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