"Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world."

-- Gerard De Nerval

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“To pray well is the better half of study.”
“Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people think they can get along perfectly well without metaphor. We have found, on the contrary, that metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.”

Source : George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (2008). “Metaphors We Live By”, p.3, University of Chicago Press
“And what? Accidentally cuts off three fingers postmortem? 'Oops, oh, no, my girlfriend just died! Clumsy me, in trying to perform CPR, I chopped off some fingers! Guess I'll just take them with me.... Oh, darn, where did that middle finger go?”
“They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.”
“There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.”
“You can't get old without living.”

Source : "Jim Brown: What I've Learned". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. August 2, 2008.
“I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too?”
“I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else.”

Source : Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.5, Applewood Books

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