"The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion...one would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it."

-- Emile M. Cioran

#Light Quotes #Return Quotes #Chaos Quotes

“Our memories, they can be inviting. But some are altogether, mighty frightening.”
“No matter what you do, if your heart is ever true, And his heart was true to Poll.”

Source : Francis Cowley Burnand (1871). “Poll and Partner Joe; Or, The Pride of Putney and the Pressing Pirate: A New and Original Nautical Burlesque ...”
“I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!”
“When I do plays in New York and do eight shows a week, you have the same feeling. Three of them are terrible, four of them are okay and one is really good. It's hard to say what accounts for the really good one or for the terrible ones, but you end up trying to remanufacture whatever worked for the good one, like eating a tomato. I ate a tomato and the show was good, but that of course is not how it works.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.”
“It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work.”
“People and things have edges, but where does a landscape stop?”
“Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.”

Source : Ernest Thompson Seton (1905). “Animal Heroes”

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