"If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream-a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows-is essentially poetry."

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Source : Michel Leiris (1987). “Nights as day, days as night”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

Michel Leiris

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“Aesthetics is not an end in itself. But in our culture, which is becoming more multi-sensory and less respectful of God, we have a responsibility to pay attention to the design of the space where we assemble regularly. In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and Orthodox churches. Darkness communicates that something serious is happening.”
“We know that more than seventy to eighty percent of women masturbate, and ninety percent of men masturbate, and the rest lie.”

Source : "'Penn&Teller: Bullshit' ('Abstinence')". Comedy, Documentary, June 05, 2006.
“People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.”
“I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.”
“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.”
“Guns don't walk into a theater by themselves and shoot people. You have to look at who's behind it, who's behind the trigger?”
“Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.”
“Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor.”

Source : "Healing Gaia: practical medicine for the planet". Book by James Lovelock, 1991.

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