"Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes."

-- Zygmunt Bauman

#Dream Quotes #Phoenix Quotes #Ashes Quotes

“I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most miserable on earth, because they suffer at one and the same time the evils of barbarism and of civilization.”
“When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming, no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.”
“The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.”
“Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.”
“I am the woman who glows in the dark, I'll stay awake forever if I have to.”
“I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech.”
“I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.”
“To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius.”

Source : "The lost city of Venice" by Josh McHugh, www.wired.com. August 1, 2003.

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