"For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log."

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Source : Selma Lagerlöf (1928). “The general's ring”

Selma LagerlÃ¶f

#Men Quotes #Flames Quotes #Soul Quotes

“You know, without my telling you, how sometimes a word or name eludes you, and you seek it through running ghosts of shadow -- leaping at it, lying in wait for it to spring upon it, spreading faint snares for it of sense or sound: until, of a sudden, as if in a phantom forest, you hear it, see it flash among the branches, and scarcely knowing how, suddenly have it.”

Source : Conrad Aiken (1970). “Collected poems”, Oxford Univ Pr
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“Books smell. Musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer, it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible, it should be...smelly.”
“Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.”
“A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of whirlwinds swirling in oneâ€™s mind, one thinks of a way out, or a way in: out of the scorching bosom of a volcano, and in â€“ into the centre of a raging hurricane. And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease, the odds and ends of your mental surplus you carelessly throw at the world, one wants to be at a loss, in a maze; amazed, and amazingly unabashed.”
“When you're winning the grass is greener, the cigars are sweeter and the girls are better looking!”
“Photography is like an open book to the world.”
“I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. I am very sure, that many people lose two or three hours every day, by not taking care of the minutes.”

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