“An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.”
- JACQUES PREVERT (French poet,1900-1977)
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“The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.”
- IRVING HOWE (American literary and social critic and educator, 1920-1993)
“To rid ourselves of our shadows – who we are – we must step into either total light or total darkness.”
- JEREMY PRESTON JOHNSON
“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.”
- FRED SHERO
“Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.”
- SWAMI NIRMALANANDA
“Curiosity has its own reason for existence.”
- ALBERT EINSTEIN (German born American physicist,1879-1955)
“To get a better idea try this: focus on these words, and whatever you do don’t let your eyes wander past the perimeter of this page.”
- HOUSE OF LEAVES by MARK DANIELEWSKI
“Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself.”
- ERICH FROMM (German born American social philosopher and psychoanalyst, 1900-1980)
“This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.”
- D.H. LAWRENCE (British poet, novelist and essayist, 1885-1930)
“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”
- F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (American author, 1896-1940)
“There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.”
- EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON (British politician, poet, critic and novelist, 1803-1873)
“To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.”
- GEORGE E. WOODBERRY (American poet, critic, and teacher, 1855-1930)
“The most violent passions give some respite, but vanity always disturbs us.”
- FRACOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD (French classical author, 1613-1680)
“The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.”
- BERTRAND RUSSELL (English logician and philosopher, 1872-1970)
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
- HANS HOFFMAN (German painter, 1880-1966)
