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Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one. Yevgeny Zamyatin
The idea that literary theorists killed poetry dead because with their shrivelled hearts and swollen brains they are incapable of spotting a metaphor, let alone a tender feeling, is on of the more obtuse critical platitudes of our time. Terry Eagleton
Alison Bechdel quote: "It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we..."
It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew. Alison Bechdel
For it will come to pass that even the most corrupt of our rich men will finally be ashamed of his riches before the poor man, and the poor man, seeing his humility, will understand and yield to him in joy, and will respond with kindness to his gracious shame. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Whereas the food debris of the Neanderthals shows a wide variety of animal bones, suggesting that they took whatever they could find, archaeological remnants from Homo sapiens show that they sought out particular kinds of game and tracked animals seasonally. All of this strongly suggests that they possessed a linguistic system sufficiently sophisticated to deal with concepts such as: “Today let’s kill some red deer. You take some big sticks and drive the deer out of the woods and we’ll... Bill Bryson
If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has subjected it, freely, and in a humility that passes understanding. If the world exists not chiefly that we may love God, but that God may love us, yet that very fact, on a deeper level, is so for our sakes. If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed. C. S. Lewis
Stephen King quote: "In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I..."
In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught. Stephen King
Patti Smith quote: "I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more..."
I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book. Patti Smith
The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends. Carl Jung
All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not having existed before they were conceived. Or at all. After all, one sperm over and we would have been our sisters, and we'd never have been missed. Lois McMaster Bujold
The harmony of soul and body...?! We in our madness have separated the two, and have invented a realism that is vulgar and ideality that is void... Oscar Wilde
I did not care for the things that most people care abou? making money, having a comfortable home, high military or civil rank, and all the other activities, political appointments, secret societies, party organizations, which go on in our city . . . I set myself to do yo? each one of you, individually and in privat? what I hold to be the greatest possible service. I tried to persuade each one of you to concern himself less with what he has than with what he is, so as to render himself as... Socrates
Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services. Marcel Proust
Ludwig van Beethoven quote: "Oh continue to love me - never misjudge the most faithful..."
Oh continue to love me - never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. ever thineever mineever ours Ludwig van Beethoven
I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we all are put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others. One of the booby traps of freedom--which is bordered on all sides by isolation--is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet. Saul Bellow

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