"You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, Iâ€™m terrified by reality."

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Source : Jean Lorrain (2002). “Nightmares of an Ether-drinker”

Jean Lorrain

#Reality Quotes #Invisible Quotes #Cases Quotes

“Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.”
“But in America, if you're an atheist, you lose.”
“The civil rights situation is like a pregnancy. It will get worse, I believe, before it gets better. What the usual pregnancy comes to is a decent baby. That is what we all hope will be the end product of this stress. It is customary, at the end of a pregnancy, to have for your pains a decent baby.”
“In my mind I'ma fighter, my heart's a lighter, my soul is the fluid. My flow sparks it right up.”
“I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.”
“I will give you a show that you've never ever seen before, why?...Because I can”
“Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.”
“Do not spoil the wonder with haste!”

Source : "The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings".

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