"The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream."

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Source : Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

Jorge Luis Borges

#Dream Quotes #Mind Quotes #World Quotes

“I'm not an Uncle Tom. . .. I'm going to be here for 40 years. For those who don't like it, get over it.”
“There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.”
“It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.”
“Make it about them, not about you.”
“What else donâ€™t women like besides the Three Stooges? Tom Waits. Being hurt physically or emotionally.”
“It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance but must make their own way in the world, and eldest sons who waste their inheritance on riotous living and go into exile to live with the swine, that children learn or mislearn both what a child and what a parent is, what the cast of characters may be in the drama into which they have been born and what the ways of the world are.”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.251, A&C Black
“You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.”

Source : "The ArtSlut's Guide to Makin' It - As a Visual Artist". Book by Barb Benson, 2007.
“Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorbing those experiences and somehow making intuitive responses in future situations that resemble them in some way.”

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