"I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism."

-- Denis Diderot

#Fall Quotes #Dark Quotes #Light Quotes

“i sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a candle. But if they were a code, who held the key to it? I was sand, I was snowâ€”written on, rewritten, smoothed over.”
“The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre â€“ E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti â€“ while his imaginative reach is something uniquely his own.”
“I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they bothered. It's improvisational. I cook with whatever I have laying around.”
“We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.”

Source : Pindar (1942). “Some Odes of Pindar: In New English Versions”
“Coming into your powers can be a very confusing time. Perhaps there is a book on the subject. If you like, we can go see Marian." Yeah, right. Choices and Changes. A Modern Girl's Guide to Casting. My Mom Wants to Kill Me: A Self-Help Book For Teens.”
“'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.”
“Today's secular libertarians, who want to remove biblical religion from public life, have trouble making sense of the civil rights movement because it was so clearly a religiously inspired movement that entered the public arena and made a major difference in American life.”
“With all my heart I beseech and beg my two hundred million female compatriots to assume their responsibility as citizens. Arise! Arise! Chinese women, arise!”

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