"Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live."

-- Alexander Pope

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“There are some moments you'd rather sleep through, pass from point A to point B without awareness of the time passing or the events that carry you from present to future. And it's mostly those moments in which it's smarter-safer- to stay awake.”

Source : Robin Wasserman (2010). “Skinned”, p.105, Simon and Schuster
“And the end and the beginning where always there, before the beginning and after the end.”
“In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.”
“Hazel had read enough books to know that a line like this one is the line down which your life breaks in two. And you have to think very carefully about whether you want to cross it, because once you do itâ€™s very hard to get back to the world you left behind. And sometimes you break a barrier that no one knew existed, and then everything you knew before crossing the line is gone. But sometimes you have a friend to rescue. And so you take a deep breath and then step over the line and into the darkness ahead.”
“People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are generally not satisfied with what they have; they are very concerned with what they are going to have.”

Source : Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper
“Everyone's like, 'overnight sensation.' It's not overnight. It's years of hard work.”
“I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.”
“The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.”

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