"Are you in love with me, Camryn Bennett?â€ â€¦ â€œNot yet,â€ I say with a smile in my voice, â€œbut Iâ€™m getting there."

-- J.A. Redmerski

“It is not that love sometimes makes mistakes, but that it is, essentially, a mistake. We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfections on to another person. One day the phantasmagoria vanishes, and with it love dies.”

Source : Samuel R. Delany (2011). “Einstein Intersection”, p.108, Wesleyan University Press
“Iâ€™d just play the music and dance. When Iâ€™m dancing, I donâ€™t even notice how Iâ€™m doing it.”
“It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others or ideas he has repeated to himself or convinced himself are true. These negative ideas have exactly the same effect upon our behavior as the negative ideas implanted into the mind of a hypnotized subject by a professional hypnotist.”
“Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.”
“So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistake.”
“Dictionaries stop where the heart starts.”
“Originality is another criterion of aesthetic value. We may formulate an originality principle, according to which highly valuable works of art provide hitherto unavailable insights.... Notice that, although originality is a necessary condition of high aesthetic value, it is far from a sufficient condition. Many original works have little or no aesthetic value. An artwork may present a novel but uninteresting perspective, or one that is original but wrong.”
“To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.”

Source : "Like it or not, Europe is paying the transaction costs of diversity" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2006.

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