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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
-M.C. Escher
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet
in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.
-John Fowles
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad
weather, only different kinds of good weather.
-John Ruskin
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life, which he has imagined, he
will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
-Henry David Thoreau
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
-Annie Dillard
Rain! Whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
-Henry Ward Beecher
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
-John Muir
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
-Rene Descartes
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had
nothing else in the universe to do.
-Galileo Galilei
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
-Albert Einstein
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
-Rose Kennedy
Fragments came floating into his mind like bits of wood drifting down a stream, and he fished them out and fitted them
together.
-Elizabeth Gray Vining
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense
rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
-Edward Albee
I also love the idea that you can be drawn in by hateful characters. It takes a very good writer to create a character
that you despise, yet find engaging.
-Edward Albee
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's
own personality.
-Edward Albee
I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.
-M. C. Escher
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
-Paul Gauguin
The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul. -Wassily Kandinsky
Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always; I know it. That is the meaning of this happy
hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.
-Paul Klee
Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become
the obedient instrument of a remote will.
-Paul Klee
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
-Henri Matisse
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
-Bertolt Brecht
War is like love; it always finds a way.
-Bertolt Brecht
America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.
-William S. Burroughs
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
-Marc Chagall
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will
always make it beautiful.
-John Constable
Let my enemies devour each other.
-Salvador Dali
~Albert Camus~
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears.
As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
~Eugene Ionesco~
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
Living is abnormal.
I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do,
memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.
~Maya Angelou~
I believe that every person is born with talent.
I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person
Who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough
compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and
start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die; it can introduce
the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything
else are also God's creation.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
~Napoleon Bonaparte~
Retreat? I would in a moment, if it was to my own advantage.
Imagination rules the world.
Occupation is the scythe of time.
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Battles are lost or won in 15 minutes.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich.
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
The reason I beat the Austrians is, they did not known the value of five minutes.
Great men are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
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