"An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isnâ€™t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything."

-- Yukio Mishima

#Men Quotes #Shadow Quotes #World Quotes

“Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.”

Source : Charles Simic (2013). “The Monster Loves His Labyrinth”, p.67, Copper Canyon Press
“If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.”
“To worship God 'in spirit and in truth' is first and foremost a way of saying that we must worship God by means of Christ. In him the reality has dawned and the shadows are being swept away (Hebrews 8:13). Christian worship is new covenant worship; it is gospel-inspired worship; it is Christ-centered worship; it is cross-focused worship.”
“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Letâ€™s not forget this.”
“Passive perception promotes pessimism; Persistent perseverance promises prosperity”
“I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes, anarchic qualities of jazz and Surrealism seemed to offer a way to cross some of the forbidden frontiers of Eastern Europe.”
“When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.”
“I like to disappear in my roles because I don't have an assistant.”

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