"The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the bottom of the sea, that I know for sure - but I have never encountered them, and I am searching still for the profound and plaintive gazes in whose depths I might be able, like Hamlet redeemed, to drown the Ophelia of my desire."

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Source : Jean Lorrain (1994). “Monsieur de Phocas”, Hippocrene Books

Jean Lorrain

#Eye Quotes #Dark Quotes #Sea Quotes

“I'd rather sink with my own vision than float with somebody else's.”
“As a generation, Generation X or whatever we were called, we were not being nurtured. We didn't have Obama. We didn't have Bill Clinton. We didn't have any politicians that you could look up to, nor did we have parents.”
“Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack was torn between Catholicism, Buddhism, and his own demon-driven pursuit of kicks, between spirit and flesh, between mom's house and the Beat coffeehouse, patriotism and subversion, men and women, society and solitude, carousing and meditation, sacred and profane, secular and divine. It's a miracle he survived as long as he did.”
“Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.”

Source : "Rep. Gary Ackerman Wants To Tread On Tea Party License Plates In Arizona" By Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2011.
“But I never plotted a master plan for following my dreams.”

Source : "Kathryn Joosten obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2012.
“When people talk about successful retailers and those that are not so successful, the customer determines at the end of the day who is successful and for what reason.”
“Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.”
“Coffee, though a useful medicine, if drunk constantly will at length induce a decay of health , and hectic fever.”

Source : The Moral Instructor Pt IV, Sect. II, Ch. 10

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