"Cast out thy Jonah--every sleeping and secure sin that brings a tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit."

-- Frederic Reynolds

#Sleep Quotes #Ships Quotes #Vexation Quotes

“Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deeply buried rock at the bottom of the current.”

Source : Kobo Abe (2011). “The Woman in the Dunes”, p.80, Vintage
“One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.”
“Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls”
“Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.”
“And our dreams are who we are.”
“Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.”
“A Childrenâ€™s Museum, however, is more of a Funatorium. You are encouraged to touch things, which is poor training for subsequent museum visitation.”
“Those that we love never alter, unless we cease to love them ...”

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