"I splash my head with ice-cold water and turn to face the mirror. When my image appears I instinctively look away. Is there a truth on the other side that we do not want to see?"

-- Shan Sa

#Ice Quotes #Mirrors Quotes #Water Quotes

“It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of civilization that comes between us as much as it makes life possible. A poor substitute for the sort of passion we like to extol perhaps, but real love shares more in common with hatred and rage than it does with geniality or politeness.”

Source : Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.196, Counterpoint Press
“In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.”
“In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything.”
“I love Columbia, Missouri, if it wasn't for the authorities, I'd go back.”
“Be bold. Be kind. Be brave.”
“It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.”

Source : "Manifesto" by Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb in New York Times, June 13, 1943.
“Memory is strange. Scientifically, it is not a mechanical means of repeating something. I can think a thousand times about when I broke my leg at the age of ten, but it is never the same thing which comes to mind when I think about it. My memory of this event has never been, in reality, anything except the memory of my last memory of that event. This is why I use the image of a palimpsest - something written over something partially erased - that is what memory is for me. It's not a film you play back in exactly the same way. It's like theater, with characters who appear from time to time.”
“Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.”

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