"For the world is founded and built up on death, and the reality of death is neither to be questioned nor feared. Death is a dark dream, but it is not a nightmare. It is mankind's lack of pity, mankind's fatal propensity for torture, that is the nightmare."

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Source : Mary Webb (2016). “Gone To Earth”, p.194, Mary Webb

Mary Webb

#Death Quotes #Dream Quotes #Dark Quotes

“we usually think of ourselves as sitting the driver's seat, with ultimate control over the decisions we made and the direction our life takes; but, alas, this perception has more to do with our desires-with how we want to view ourselves-than with reality”
“I don't want revival...I WANT CHRIST! And if we have Christ, there will be a revival.”
“A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.”
“I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I'm fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.”

Source : Source: archive.alternativenation.net
“It's hard being gay in Edwardian times.”
“It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front.”
“With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.”
“Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.”

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