"Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreamingâ€” its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence"

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Source : Antonio Machado, Alan S. Trueblood (1982). “Antonio Machado”, p.93, Harvard University Press

Antonio Machado

#Running Quotes #Dream Quotes #Heart Quotes

“My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.”
“Do not Blame the world. Find a solution.”
“A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself.”
“It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.”

Source : "Arca's Warped Beauty". Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com. November 19, 2015.
“The true France is a multicultural France. Where someone is appointed minister not because she is a woman but because she is competent. And not because she is from a visible minority. I am against positive discrimination. Someone can be intelligent and black, and someone can be an imbecile and white.”
“Canada entered World War I as a colony and came out a nation...”
“At the end of the day, the key to happiness is taking ultimate responsibility for your reactions to all of your experiences - the good and the chaotic.”
“Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.”

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