"Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you. ("

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Source : Tananarive Due (2008). “Blood Colony: A Novel”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

Tananarive Due

#Past Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Substance Quotes

“I try to put what's evocative in the music to me, I try and put that out there in terms of titles and imagery, or implication towards the listener.”
“Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.”
“I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.”
“Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.”

Source : Paracelsus (1967). “The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, of Hohenheim, Called Paracelsus the Great: Hermetic medicine and hermetic philosophy”
“You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!”

Source : William Morris Hunt (1976). “William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing”, Dover Pubns
“The collapse of the world's banking system and the impending disaster of accelerating climate change are not separate phenomena. They are simply the most visible symptoms of a particular model of capitalism that will bring civilisation to its knees. But those symptoms will not get sorted unless and until we commit to a radical transformation of the way we create and distribute wealth in the world today”
“O, high the happy bosom heaves When love is in the dancer!”
“The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itselfâ€”not from sacred books or sectarian beliefs. Inferring that biochemical systems were designed by an intelligent agent is a humdrum process that requires no new principles of logic or science. It comes simply from the hard work that biochemistry has done over the past forty years, combined with consideration of the way in which we reach conclusions of design every day.”

Source : "Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution". Book by Michael Behe, 1996.

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