"She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love."

-- Marguerite Duras

#Memories Quotes #Kissing Quotes #People Quotes

“By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.”
“I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.”
“Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.”
“Just as the ancients danced to call upon the spirits in nature, we too can dance to find the spirits within ourselves that have been long buried and forgotten.”
“The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his purpose, which is as strong as the dream. He is not someone possessed, like Cassandra, but a passionate, easily tempted explorer who fully intends to get home again, like Odysseus.”
“Everyone wins when a leader gets better”
“Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function.”

Source : "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part III:". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 15, 2011.
“Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence. Yet why these glorious sunsets, I ask myself, if nature does not speak to us with tongues of fire.”

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