"What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real."

-- Andre Breton

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“The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. I mean the wide-open eye which leads us to see truth more vividly, to apprehend more broadly, to concern ourselves more deeply, to be, all our life long, sensitive and awake to the powers and responsibilities given to us as human beings.”
“Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to interpreting the meaning of the civilizations which they have represented, and to attempting the interpretation of whatever minds in the universe, human or divine, they believed to be real.”
“Her life her life had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hair-brush and told, "There you go." She'd stood there for years, blinking and befuddled, brushing the can with the brush.”
“...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.”
“The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.”
“The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.”

Source : Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.78, Courier Corporation
“Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals.”
“I’m gone for eight months…If you feel that it’s critical to contact me, that I get involved in your problem, what I want you to do is to lie down. When that feeling goes away, I want you to get up, solve the problem, and then send me an e-mail with the solution.”

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