"And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives, Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake, How if our waking life, like that of sleep, Be all a dream in that eternal life To which we wake not till we sleep in death"

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Source : Pedro Calderon De La Barca (2015). “Life Is A Dream”, p.115, eKitap Projesi

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#Dream Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Night Quotes

“I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.”
“I guess that's the secret. It would never have occurred to Lia to want to escape -- but then she gets kicked out. Best thing that ever happened to her? I'm not sure she would say yes, because obliviousness tends to be rather pleasant, but once you realized you've been bolivious, there's no turning back. You can't un-know what you know. You know?”
“To me not one thing is better than anything else, I'm completely proud of everything I've written and recorded.”
“But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after - oh, that's love by a different name. She is the babe you hold in your arms for an hour after she's gone to sleep. If you put her down in the crib, she might wake up changed and fly away. So instead you rock my the window, drinking the light from her skin, breathing her exhaled dreams. Your heart bays to the double crescent moons of closed lashes on her cheeks. She's the one you can't put down.”
“It is better to be the cause of an effect rather than be the effect that was caused.”
“I need to do a concert to celebrate David Bowie's electronic music. And in so doing, I'm not taking a step back, I'm taking a step forward and presenting it in its entirety so people can understand this type of visionary.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“What's tough is being good every day.”
“It is a tremendous responsibility for us to have all the eyes focused on what we do and give people exactly what they need when they ask for it.”

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