"The line of traffic advancing towards the rising sun looked like a procession of the returning dead. Every one of them, solitaries in clean shirts, smoking, checking mirrors to see if their reflections were still there, wore dark glasses."

-- Iain Sinclair

#Dark Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Glasses Quotes

“How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.”

Source : Athol Fugard (1983). “Notebooks, 1960-1977”
“Don't let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don't let it affect me. If anything it gives me more enthusiasm and pushes me to do better in my career so I can prove them wrong.”
“The thought of today cannot be expressed in the language of yesterday.”
“As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose--that it may violate property instead of protecting it--then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder.”
“What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.”

Source : Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”
“Yesterday i carved your name into the surface of an ice cube then held it against my chest til it melted into my aching pores today i cried so hard the neighbors knocked on my door and asked if I wanted to borrow some sugar.”
“We ride and never worry 'bout the fall. Guess that's just the cowboy in us all.”
“Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.”

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