"With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books."

-- Peter Abrahams

#Dream Quotes #Book Quotes #Self Quotes

“With Southern actors you always think you're from the same place. Even if one is from Texas, one is from Georgia, you're like, "oh, you're just down the street, man."”
“What we really believe is what we manifest. What we believe, we see.”
“I hope we'll get lucky enough to grow old together.”
“I protest against deference to any man, whether John Stuart Mill, or Adam Smith, or Aristotle, being allowed to check inquiry. Our science has become far too much a stagnant one, in which opinions rather than experience and reason are appealed to.”

Source : William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.”

Source : Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”
“The question you need to ask yourself is not if you will heal, but how you will heal.”
“Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty.”

Source : Alvin Langdon Coburn, Alison Gernsheim (1978). “Alvin Langdon Coburn, Photographer: An Autobiography with Over 70 Reproductions of His Works”, p.80, Courier Corporation
“Osho is a mystical giant, a flowering of a unique intelligence and one of those rare humans ex-pressing himself with joy.”

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