"Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark."

-- Leonard Bishop

#Firefly Quotes #Dark Quotes #Perception Quotes

“Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.”
“It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool”
“To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.”
“Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.”
“We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.”

Source : Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.14, Macmillan
“A politician thinks of the next election; a statement of the next generation. A politician looks for the success of his party; a statesman for that of his country. The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician is satisfied to drift.”
“I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.”

Source : Source: time.com
“We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.”

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