"The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal." "It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals... and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some strange new disguise."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Men Quotes #Sight Quotes #Funeral Quotes

“Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.”
“People tell me I need an assistant, but I dont want one.”
“An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.”
“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.”

Source : Vita Sackville-West, Mary Ann Caws (2003). “Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings”, p.125, Palgrave Macmillan
“No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes.”

Source : Michael Frayn (2013). “Constructions”, p.22, Faber & Faber
“My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.”
“Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.”
“What matters to you defines your mattering.”

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