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Lewis Mumford

"Each religion is a brave guess at the authorship of Hamlet. Yet, as far as the play goes does it make any difference whether Shakespeare or Bacon wrote it? Would it make any difference to the actors if their parts happened out of nothingness, if they found themselves acting on the stage because of some gross and unpardonable accident? Would it make any difference if the playwright gave them the lines or whether they composed them themselves, so long as the lines were properly spoken? Would it make any difference to the characters if A Midsummer Night's Dream was really a dream?"

-- Lewis Mumford

#God Quotes #Dream Quotes #Character Quotes

“Love, which is lust, is the Lamp in the Tomb. Love, which is lust, is the Call from the Gloom. Love, which is lust, is the Main of Desire. Love, which is lust, is the Centric Fire. So man and woman will keep their trust, Till the very Springs of the Sea run dust. Yea, each with the other will lose and win, Till the very Sides of the Grave fall in. For the strife of Love's the abysmal strife, And the word of Love is the Word of Life. And they that go with the Word unsaid, Though they seem of the living, are damned and dead.”

Source : William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1970). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”
“I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value.”
“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”

Source : Ray Bradbury (2000). “Bradbury Stories”
“There is no greater sign of a bad cause, than when the patrons of it are reduced to the necessity of making use of the most wicked artifices to support it.”
“Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Orion. There was no finer church, no finer choir, than the stars speaking in silence to the many consumptives silently condemned, a legion upon the dark rooftops. The wind came down from the north like a runner in lacrosse, violent and hard, to batter every living thing. They were there, each one alone in conversation with the stars, mining ephemeral love from cold and distant light.”
“Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me â€“ so extreme, so violent that I wasnâ€™t sure Iâ€™d survive it.”
“The Universe and Spirit do not understand limitations...PEOPLE invented limitations!”
“I love you, Sir Marco!”

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