"There is, in every event, whether lived or told, always a hole or a gap, often more than one. If we allow ourselves to get caught in it, we find it opening onto a void that, once we have slipped into it, we can never escape."

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Source : Brian Evenson (2009). “Fugue State”, Coffee House Pr

Brian Evenson

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“I am definitely an individual.”
“The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.”
“Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out...”
“We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it.”

Source : "On Divination and Synchronicity". Book by Marie-Louise von Franz, pp. 39-40, 1992.
“It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.”
“I want to get better and make it last as long as I can.”
“They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have baffled the men they themselves were before Pearl Harbor. Among MacArthur's ardent infantrymen were cooks, mechanics, pilots whose planes had been shot down, seamen whose ships had been sunk, and some civilian volunteers.”
“My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.”

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