"We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech--but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun...."

-- A. S. Byatt

#Mean Quotes #Fire Quotes #Our World Quotes

“God created the world, but it is the devil who keeps it going.”
“Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.”
“And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.”

Source : Robert Jay Lifton (2011). “Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
“Almost 20 percent of the people living in Germany today have a foreign background. The problem is that Germany can't really offer foreigners an identity because the Germans hardly have a national identity themselves. That is certainly a result of Auschwitz.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.”
“You can't make a life without making mistakes. Relax and learn something”
“The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.”
“[Making music] only turned into this weird job in the last year or so. Once I figured that out, I was having a blast.”

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