"It was clear: I was sick. I never used to dream. They say in the old days it was the most normal thing in the world to have dreams. Which makes sense: Their whole life was some kind of horrible merry-go-round of green, orange, Buddha, juice. But today we know that dreams point to a serious mental illness. And I know that up to now my brain has checked out chronometrically perfect, a mechanism without a speck of dust."

-- Yevgeny Zamyatin

#Dream Quotes #Dust Quotes #Orange Quotes

“O woman shapely as a swan.”
“For me, architecture is a social act,”

Source : "A Sense of Place" by Calvin Tomkins, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2013.
“Happy Birthday to you hope your day is full of fun, and a day of laughter until the setting of the sun.”
“You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.”
“For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.”

Source : Amin Maalouf (2001). “In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong”, p.22, Arcade Publishing
“Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her.”

Source : Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.49, Penguin
“LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.”
“Its such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, Action! Its like being a little mini-god.”

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