"The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time."

-- Mortimer Adler

#Book Quotes #Great Book Quotes

“Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's left behind that I like to photograph.”
“Reality denied comes back to haunt.”

Source : Philip K. Dick (2012). “Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.”

Source : Robert R. McCammon (2011). “Boy's Life”, p.452, Open Road Media
“Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark.”
“When the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only in appearance. Slowly, slowly the wound to the soul begins to make itself felt, like a bruise, which only slowly deepens its terrible ache, till it fills all the psyche. And when we think we have recovered and forgotten, it is then that the terrible after-effects have to be encountered at their worst.”
“Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.”
“It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.”
“I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.”

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