"I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind."

-- John Cheever

#Dream Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Perhaps I could best describe my experience of doing mathematics in terms of entering a dark mansion. You go into the first room and it's dark, completely dark. You stumble around, bumping into the furniture. Gradually, you learn where each piece of furniture is. And finally, after six months or so, you find the light switch and turn it on. Suddenly, it's all illuminated and you can see exactly where you were. Then you enter the next dark room...”
“No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.”

Source : Renata Adler (2013). “Pitch Dark”, p.35, New York Review of Books
“Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.”
“How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.”

Source : 1889 On suicide. Diary entry, 5 Aug.
“If you struggle with issues of documentation, issues of your health care, issues of whether or not you'll be punished for being open about who you are, those things affect how you can be employed or not employed, how you can get an apartment or not get an apartment, how it is that you feel free or not free.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“people, in forming their opinions of others, are usually lazy enough to go by whatever is most obvious or whatever chance remark they happen to hear. So the best policy is to dictate to others the opinion you want them to have of you.”
“Have you any old grudges you would like to pay, Any wrongs laid up from a bygone day? -Gather them now and lay them away When Christmas comes. Hard thoughts are heavy to carry, my friend, And life is short from beginning to end; Be kind to yourself, leave nothing to mend When Christmas comes.”
“It's important to remember how our friends have such a powerful influence on us and vice versa. This can be a great thing as long as your friends surround you with love, loyalty, respect and positivity.”

Source : "Summers sees end to 'sense of free-fall'". Financial Times, April 09, 2009.

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