"As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades."

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Source : Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby Essays: Tailor blood and other notes and comments”

Frank Moore Colby

#War Quotes #Men Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I hate diets and I love eating.”
“It is far more than the discovery of life without a self. The immediate, inevitable result is an emergence into a new dimension of knowing and being that entails a difficult and prolonged readjustment. the reflexive mechanism of the mind -or whatever it is that allows us to be self-conscious - is cut off or permanently suspended so the mind is ever after held in a fixed now moment out of which it cannot move in its uninterrupted gaze upon the Unknown”
“Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.”
“The fascination with the music stayed with me for years and I wanted to find out why I liked it so much and to learn the grammar of it, and that's why I tried to write the sheet music down. Writing it down gave me some ideas of other versions of the music and I wrote the first string quartets and piano pieces based on transcriptions.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there's unknown things happening. I'm not ready to point at what they are or what the reason is, but I know they exist.”
“Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.”

Source : Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.68, Library of America
“There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.”

Source : Margery Allingham (1959). “Crime and Mr. Campion”
“One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.”

Source : Sheila Heti (2012). “How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life”, p.4, Macmillan

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