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It has been said that great art is the night thought of man. It may emerge without warning from the soundless depths of the unconscious, just as supernovas may blaze up suddenly in the farther reaches of void space.

Loren Eiseley

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Loren Eiseley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1907
Born: September 3
Died: 1977
Died: July 9
Anthropologist
Naturalist
Philosopher
Poet
Science Writer
Lincoln
Nebraska
Men
Depth
Farther
Space
Emerge
Night
Reaches
Art
Depths
Thought
Warning
May
Void
Soundless
Without
Unconscious
Supernova
Great
Suddenly
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