"I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol. 1), you gotta tell the truth, and it can't be misinterpreted."

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“One rational standard of action is how well it promotes the end it seeks. Another standard is whether it aims at ends which are good. Both of these, but especially the former, depend on judgments of fact.”
“As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.”
“Dance light, for my heart it lies under your feet, love.”

Source : John Francis WALLER (1854). “Poems”, p.229
“For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.”
“Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.”
“... negative feelings are not true feelings at all; rather, they are your thoughts about something, based always on the previous experience of yourself and others. You will not find Truth in your past data, only past data that is based on other past data that is based on other past data, and so forth. Forget your "past experience" and look directly at the experience you are having. Right Here, Right Now. There is your Truth.”
“To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.”
“As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.”

Source : H.M. Tomlinson (1920). “The Sea And The Jungle”

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