"An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties."

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Source : Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.85, Faber & Faber

Djuna Barnes

#Mind Quotes #Uncertainty Quotes

“Live dead. Alive to Christ, dead to self.”
“I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.”
“Let us ask Mary to help us fix our eyes intently on Jesus, to follow him always, even when this is demanding.”
“In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.”
“It is believed that the average person uses no more than 10% of his or her potential. Ten percent! Weâ€™re not even scratching the surface of what weâ€™re capable of. We are all blessed with a continent of unexplored gifts and talents. Use them, or lose them!”
“For me, a record is valid when I actually hold the vinyl. Like, I've worked on the art for a while and I see the vinyl and I go "Ooh, it's an actual LP. How cool is that?" That's very sacred to me. You can't take that back, you know?”
“I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.”
“I believe in freedom, I'm for a world without borders. But that's an ideal. On a practical level, I'm for a secular state where religion only plays a minor role.”

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