"I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation."

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Source : Raymond Carver (2015). “Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories”, p.391, Vintage

Raymond Carver

#Dream Quotes #Morning Quotes #Insomnia Quotes

“The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.”
“True love is actually very hard to understand... Everybody is looking for love, everybody is fighting for love... But because they can't bear to say it outloud, they express it through songs”
“A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.”

Source : Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.86, Hachette UK
“There are certain pictures I can never take. We turn on the TV and are smothered with cruelty and suffering and I don't need to add to it. So I just photograph peaceful things. A vase of flowers, a beautiful girl. Sometimes, through a peaceful face, I can bring something important into the world.”
“This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.”
“Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.”
“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”

Source : 1867 'Rousseau and the Sentimentalists', in the North American Review, Jul.
“Give yourself a deadline to stop planning and to start taking action.”

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