"All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness."

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C. S. Lewis

#Unattainable Quotes #Consciousness Quotes #Invisible Quotes

“Just as certain Cold War binaries were collapsing, new binaries of Sunni versus Shia or Arab versus Kurd were being created by the new occupation force. It's the corruption of that moment that I am really interested in.”
“No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.”
“I could eat my body weight in sushi.”
“You know what I hate about people who criticize you? They - they criticize what you say but they never give you credit for how loud you say it.”
“As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of your own difference, assumptions of your own superiority. And you acted out these beliefs on the stage of the world, so that the entire planet was rocked by the repercussions of your tantrums, not least my family, now facing war thousands of miles away.”
“From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.”
“Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead On through the darkness to eventual light, To undiscovered wealth, to newer need . . .”

Source : Zoë Akins (1937). “The Hills Grow Smaller: Poems”
“The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.”

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