Quotes
Authors
Man Ray

"Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has extended this limit for himself, should arouse the resentment of those who have accepted conventions which, since accepted by all, require no initiative of application. And this resentment generally takes the form of meaningless laughter or of criticism, if not persecution."

Source : Man Ray (1934). “Photographs by Man Ray: 105 Works, 1920-1934”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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“If it rusts, it can never be trusted If its owner fails to control it, it will cut him Yes, pride is like a blade”

Source : "Bleach". Manga Series by Tite Kubo, August 20, 2001–August 22, 2016.
“the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.”
“I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult to be sure that I am conveying them in the best way. Anyone who goes beyond cliche phrases and cliche ideas will have this trouble.”

Source : "The Alien Critic" Journal, August 1973.
“It is my deepest conviction that the children should be seen and heard as our most treasured assets.”
“As we walked, I began to wonder what the opposite of molting was and why, unlike the body, which sheds everything, the soul cannot let go but compiles and accumulates, growing annual rings around the things it wants and dreams and remembers”

Source : André Aciman (2011). “False Papers”, p.61, Macmillan
“A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain.”
“The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.”
“Chilled-looking people walking along the riverside, the snow beginning, faintly, to pile up on the roofs of cars, the bare trees shaking their heads left and right, dry leaves tossing in the wind. The silver of the metal window sash sparkling coldly. Soon after, I heard sensei call, "Mikage! Are you awake? It's snowing, look! It's snowing!" "I'm coming!" I called out, standing up. I got dressed to begin another day. Over and over, we begin again.”

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