"In the end, oh I know, never, in my haggard passion, have I ever been such a cadaver as now as I take again in hand my tables of the presentâ€” if reality's real, but after it's been destroyed in the eternal and the moment by the obsessive idea of a shining nothingness."

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Source : Pier Paolo Pasolini, Norman MacAfee, Luciano Martinengo (1982). “Poems”, New York : Random House

Pier Paolo Pasolini

#Real Quotes #Passion Quotes #Hands Quotes

“I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.”
“"I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs. Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious effect on a long-range basis. Any attempt to use the water this way is deplorable." Charles Gordon Heyd, M.D., Past President, American Medical Association.”
“No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.”
“When people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are unsound.”

Source : Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.50, Macmillan
“All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.”
“Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.”
“When I was married, I didn't work. When I had my children, I didn't work. But before that, I'd work for Diana Vreeland at 'Harper's Bazaar.'”
“One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's fears, to face one's doubts, to look at one's mistakes--in order to retrieve them. One writes to capture and crystallize one's joy, but also to disperse one's gloom. Like prayer--you go to it in sorrow more than joy, for help, a road back to 'grace'.”

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