"Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear formulations, flat solutions, oversimplified explanations."

-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Art Quotes #Mean Quotes #Simple Quotes

“When you dream, your perceptual (and other) competence is affected. You are then unable to get it right competently with the beliefs in your dream.”
“But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.”

Source : William Falconer, Thomas Day, Robert Blair, Robert Glynn, Beilby Porteus (1822). “The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus”, p.288
“The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.”
“Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things.”
“It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.”
“Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way. Being explicit doesn't tap into the mystical aspect of it either in fact, that usually kills it because people don't want to see sex so much as they want to experience the emotions that go along with it. These things are hard to convey in film because sex is such a mystery.”
“No one teaches you how to do this. How do you let go of someone who you love so much?”
“I guess I'll never measure up to anyone's expectations. I surely don't measure up to what I'd like to be.”

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