"An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do."

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Source : Russell Hoban (2002). “The Medusa Frequency”, p.80, A&C Black

Russell Hoban

#Dark Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Night Quotes

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance.”
“The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."”
“No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.”

Source : Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books
“I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.”
“I am truly my mother's son.”
“Give me a man who steals a little and I can make money”

Source : Sam Giancana, Chuck Giancana, Bettina Giancana (2016). “Double Cross: The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America”, p.343, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.”
“In love, as in dreams, all is possible”

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