"This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?"

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Source : Marguerite Yourcenar (1994). “Fires”, p.99, University of Chicago Press

Marguerite Yourcenar

#Dream Quotes #Cities Quotes #Bed Quotes

“It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.”
“There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than God, and that we are the crown of creation. That interpretation has come at the expense of the one that says when God, in the story of Noah, intervened to save human life against the flood, against the acts of nature, He did not stop with human beings. He made sure that every kind of animal was represented twice on that ark.”
“Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled.”
“At 16, 17, you have no fear. You don't think or analyze. You just play on automatic. You can get smarter as you get older, but in sports you can be too smart, you know?”
“Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.”
“What happens when you lose your heart's desire?”
“The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.”
“You have to be able to step up when your name is called.”

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