"The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation."

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Source : "Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations)". Book by M.P. Singh, p. 302, January 1, 2005.

Elias Canetti

#Writing Quotes #Night Quotes #Infinite Quotes

“The death of the spirit is the price of progress.”

Source : Eric Voegelin (2012). “The New Science of Politics: An Introduction”, p.131, University of Chicago Press
“I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?”
“Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.”
“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.”
“In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems and novels and stories spring from the same seed. It's not like, say, playing polo and knitting.”
“Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One.”
“Making my family laugh when I was little - it became an addiction. It was a kind of survival.”
“And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.”

Source : "Seeking a Spiritual Home" by Katherine Towler, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2014.

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