"I'm sick of my own romanticism!"

-- Anais Nin

#Sick Quotes #Romanticism Quotes

“Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all the way there. Stories are crescent moons; they glimmer in the night sky, but they are most exquisite in their incomplete state. Because people crave the beauty of not-knowing, the excitement of suggestion, and the sweet tragedy of mystery.”

Source : Diana Abu-Jaber (2004). “Crescent: A Novel”, p.384, W. W. Norton & Company
“Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.”
“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.”
“But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.”
“The faith that stands on authority is not faith.”
“Some of our problems can no more be solved correctly by majority opinion than can a problem in arithmetic and there are few problems that cannot be solved according to what is just and right without resort to popular opinion.”
“God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.”

Source : Joseph Butler (2012). “Human Nature and other Sermons”, p.35, Simon and Schuster
“Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and rhythm is more telling than their signature. Looking at the surfaces of nature may offer equivalent revelations. What do these shapes and patterns reveal about the world and their creator? Surfaces hide so much...”

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