"Man must become comfortable in flowing from one role to another, one set of values to another, one life to another. Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways. Men have admired Prometheus and Mars too long; our God must become Proteus."

-- Luke Rhinehart

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“But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.”
“Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its essence which I wish to put down. It should be a delightful adventure.”
“The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.”
“If you would learn the secret of right relations, look only for the divine in people and things, and leave all the rest to God.”
“Having someone you love say "Thank you" is more rewarding than just having them say "I love you.”
“But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.”
“After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad.”
“He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.”

Source : Tracy Chevalier (1999). “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, E P Dutton

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