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| a51da38 | The old man suddenly became intent, his brows knitted, his lips pursed. He stood motionless, in deep thought, presenting the picture that I love to see: a patient in the actual moment of discovery -- half-appalled, half-amused -- seeing for the first time exactly what is wrong and, in the same moment, exactly what there is to be done. This is the therapeutic moment. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| f007618 | Cambridge exceeded our most macabre expectations ... the arm-chairs, the crumpets, the beautifully-bound eighteenth century volumes, the fires roaring in stoked grates. Each of us had the loan of an absent undergraduate's rooms - bedroom, sitting-room and pantry; all fitted up in a style which, after the spartan simplicity of a public school study, seemed positively sinful. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 7f0d993 | A major defining factor was my wanting him to be part of the DC Universe. Because if someone as powerful as the Sandman was running all the dreams in the world, a natural question would be "Why haven't we heard about him by now?" The answer I came up with was "He's been locked away." And that solution formed an image in my head of a naked man in a glass cell. My next question was "How long had he been trapped there?" The movie hadn't been.. | interview neil-gaiman sandman sleepy-sickness | Hy Bender | |
| 16f68eb | To have perceived an overall organization, a superarching principle uniting and relating all the elements, had a quality of the miraculous, of genius. And this gave me, for the first time, a sense of the transcendent power of the human mind, and the fact that it might be equipped to discover or decipher the deepest secrets of nature, to read the mind of God. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 62964a9 | And try to remember how to be an idealist. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| e2839e6 | A lot of these women had to overcome cultural conditioning against hurting other people, or even confronting anyone physically. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 9a4fb13 | I'll tell you something,' Arthur said. 'Until a certain age, everyone thinks their parents are heroes. Then they grow up a little, start to understand a little more of the world, and they realize their parents are just people. It destroys them, just a little bit. But it's part of becoming an adult. Everyone goes through it. You, on the other hand--your parents really are heroes, at least to everyone else. It's a bit remarkable, really. You .. | growing-up growing-up-pains growing-up-quotes | Carrie Vaughn | |
| f2c5efc | The underworld, the old world, is the womb that gave birth to humanity. The journey from under the earth is the journey from ignorance to wisdom. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| b442a36 | even when you felt that your own life had tumbled irrevocably out of control. You did what you had to do, somehow. You kept racing ahead and hoped for the best. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 1350ed2 | The worst storms were the ones that changed you. The ones you remembered not for how bad they objectively were, but for how much damage they did to your own world. Banners, planted in memory. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| fe91ead | That we have purpose for being who we are, and what we are, though we may not always know it. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| bc3629e | Love had sneaked up on us rather than bursting upon us like cannons and fireworks. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 89bb8d6 | You know, it isn't that were particularly good at granting wishes, or finding things or, well, . Playing tricks, maybe. but we pay attention. We find the loose thread that everyone else misses and tug. It makes us look so very clever. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 2eeaf2b | I think we're here to make the world a better place than we found it. I think we don't always deserve the cards that we're dealt, good or bad. But we are judged by how we play the cards we're dealt. Those of us with a bum deal that makes it harder to do good--we just have to work a little more is all. There's no destiny. There's just muddling through without doing too much damage. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 7e4552c | If you aren't in love, Willow Vaughn, then my name isn't Miriam Brigham." Willow started out of her daydreaming and glanced up from the laundry tub. Miriam stood before her with her fists planted on her hips. "Now, Miriam, I-" "No sense denying it, young lady. You've got that dreamy dazed glow about you. Rider Sinclair isn't much better, the way he hangs around you,like a bee drawn to honey. He's always holding your hand or throwing his arm.. | Charlotte McPherren | ||
| 87632b9 | He was not up to the lecture he'd get from Ben, and he couldn't call Ben without telling him he was headed to a midnight showdown with Anderson Layne. Not that Kitty wouldn't lecture him, but the lecture would somehow be easier to take from her. Because you don't have a lifetime of history with Kitty. When Kitty says you're being reckless, you tell yourself she doesn't know what she's talking about and that she's just being shrill. When Ben.. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 27aa391 | I like Nasser. He's creepy, but he seems sensible. For a vampire. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| bc2e85f | This story of benign judicial neglect of Nazis and collaborators forms a striking contrast with the systematic repression of the Greek Left, which lasted for over two decades. | greek-civil-war | Mark Mazower | |
| 681fd9a | Hasan Pasha also gave the green light for Turks and Greeks to take whatever action they pleased against any Albanians they found: killing them was not a crime. Continuing his march, he executed all the Albanians he encountered, setting fire to a monastery where other were hiding and offering five sequins for every Albanian head brought him. | crime ottomans | Mark Mazower | |
| c183a16 | nhm y`yshwn wymwtwn mHSwryn kly@an dkhl 'whm l Hqyq@ lh. tmman mthlm `sh wmt hw nfsh. | Colin Wilson | ||
| d984267 | She admitted that his nerves were ragged. 'But why?' asked Reich. Surely things were going excellently for the company. 'Oh yes,' she said. 'But when a man is President of a concern as big as A.I.U., he gets into the habit of worrying, and sometimes can't stop. | Colin Wilson | ||
| ec7005f | Thinking about such a situation, one becomes aware of the human lack of detachment; our inexperience and immaturity in the complex problems of the human condition. But it should not be so. We have the 'breathing spaces' when we can take a detached point of view. If it was of life-or-death importance that we learned by these moments of insight, men would quickly become something closer to being godlike. But most of us can drift through life .. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 893e10f | nHn l n`rf sw~ lqlyl jdan `n lrwH lnsny@. wl n`rf m ldhy yHdth `ndm ywld lnsn 'w `ndm ymwt. km 'nWn l nfhm `lq@ lnsn blzmn wlmkn. | Colin Wilson | ||
| ac16a41 | It is the sheer weight of the robot that makes us feel we are living in a 'wooden world'. We can see for example that the moment Ouspensky or Ward returned from the mystical realm of perfect freedom and found themselves 'back in the body' they once again found themselves saddled with all their boring old habits and worries and neuroses, all their old sense of identity built up from the reactions of other people, and above all the dreary old.. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 9bc2a62 | And so is another question that Sanderson's experience leads him to discuss: whether the mind is identical with the brain. He mentions a case of a man who died in a New York hospital, and who an autopsy revealed to have no brain, only "half a cupful of dirty water". This sounds, admittedly, like another of those absurd stories that are not worth discussing. But in the early 1980s Professor John Lourber of Sheffield University discovered a s.. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 9ab8c97 | l shy 'kthr md`@ llkhTr `l~ ljns lbshry mn l`tqd 'nW shw'wnh 'SbHt fy 'ydy ky'nt mn Trz lswbrmn. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 6ed3cc7 | You've a perfect right to call me as impractical as a dormouse, and to feel I'm out of touch with life. But this is the point where we simply can't see eye to eye. We've nothing whatever in common. Don't you see. . . it's not an accident that's drawn me from Blake to Whitehead, it's a certain line of thought which is fundamental to my whole approach. You see, there's something about them both. . . They trusted the universe. You say I don't .. | existentialism meaning phenomenological-existentialism whitehead | Colin Wilson | |
| 15f2aba | A young farm labourer passed me. I suddenly understood what Traherne meant when he said that men looked to him like angels. Again, it was a matter of seeing through to the inward vitality, the essence--what Boehme called the 'signature'. I smiled at the farm labourer, and he smiled back and said: 'Mornin' sir.' I felt suddenly very happy. | Colin Wilson | ||
| f338a52 | 'tkwn Hrwb lqrn l`shryn hy n`ks lHtyj l~ alh@? | Colin Wilson | ||
| da147d8 | Hy@ 'kthr lns lyst sw~ hzym@ Twyl@ l'md. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 8dadf53 | l`bd@ hy lmwqf lSHyH z lHqyq@. | Colin Wilson | ||
| d6a454b | bd ly 'n lmthqfyn 'nfshm yHmlwn mylan sryan l~ ltmt` bmbhj lmHkmt "llynshy@" lty kn yqwm bh lGwG." | Colin Wilson | ||
| 67ceabe | n rdty lHr@ lyst sw~ ntyj@ lwjwd mthyr 'w dwf` mn lkhrj. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 353755c | The vitality of the ordinary members of society is dependent on its Outsiders. Many Outsiders unify themselves, realize themselves as poets or saints. Others remain tragically divided and unproductive, but even they supply soul-energy to society; it is their strenuousness that purifies thought and prevents the bourgeois world from foundering under its own dead-weight; they are society's spiritual dynamos. | outsider | Colin Wilson | |
| f3c3623 | Now, although hypertension is accentuated by modern civilisation, it is not specifically a disease of civilisation. It is a disease of consciousness--that is, of being human. The farm labourer going to work is as likely to ignore his surroundings as the harassed car salesman. And if the inhabitants of some Amazon village are 'closer to nature' than New Yorkers, this is usually at the cost of dirt and ignorance and inconvenience. Hypertensio.. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 13da697 | n `ql lnsn lw`y yrqb lkwn Tyl@ lwqt, whw yshbh `lim lflk ldhy yrqb lsmwt bHthan `n kwkb jdyd@. wlywm yktshf `limu lflk lkwkb ljdyd, mn khll lmqrn@ byn Swr lnjm lqdym@ wlSwr ljdyd@, fdh tHrk njm mn lnjwm `ndy'dhin l ykwn njman bl kwkban. whkdh njd `qwln wmsh`rn mshGwl@ dwman b`mly@ mrqb@ lkwn bHthan `n lm`ny. wytkshWf lm`n~ `ndm nqrn byn nw`yn mn ltjrb wndrk fj'@ m yt`lq bhm, mthl `l~ dhlk tjrb@ lTfl l'wl~ m` lnr dh qd twlWd ldyh lnTb` 'n ln.. | Colin Wilson | ||
| e24c774 | bmknk tSwr msh`ry fym lw tkhylt 'nk tsh`r blHr wlt`b fy Hyn ysyr kl shy 'mmk fy ltjh lm`ks. ffy kl mr@ tHwl fyh `bwr lTryq tjd Hfl@W `l~ wshk 'n tdhsk. wtsh`r k'nW lkwn b'jm`h 'SbH m`dyan lk. nW Hssk blTm'nyn@ ytbdd wyGdw klW m lh `lq@ bHytk qblan lltdmyr wlzwl, my`Tyk fkr@an `n lmnH~ ldhy ytWkhdhh hdh lhjwm, fy lmDy, knt 'z`m 'nW hdhh lhjmt mhy lW hjmt ltshw'm wlshfq `l~ ldht, wknt 'jidu ly sry`an 'mran 'qlq bsh'nh bHyth ybdw l'mr mqbwlan... | Colin Wilson | ||
| 8fbc61c | Steppenwolf knows well enough why he is unhappy and drifting, bored and tired; it is because he will not recognize his purpose and follow it with his whole being. 'He is resolved to forget that the desperate clinging to the self, and the desperate clinging to life are the surest way to eternal death.' Haller knows that even when the Outsider is a universally acknowledged man of genius, it is due to 'his immense powers of surrender and suffe.. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 53c0e6a | Faculty X is the ability to grasp the reality not simply of other times and places, but of the present moment as well. | places present reality x | Colin Wilson | |
| dca6866 | Yet it is the Outsider's belief that life aims at more life, at higher forms of life, something for which the Superman is an inexact poetic symbol (as Dante's description of the beatific vision is expressed in terms of a poetic symbol); so that, in a sense, Urizen is the most important of the three functions. The fall was necessary, as Hesse realized. Urizen must go forward alone. The other two must follow him. And as soon as Urizen has go.. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 41470eb | Thought only gives the world an appearance of order to anyone weak enough to be convinced by its show. Colin Wilson "The Country of the Blind" | Stephen King | ||
| 700a88e | I love life and I want to live, to cry but cannot--I feel such a pain in my soul--a pain which frightens me. My soul is ill. My soul, not my mind. The doctors do not understand my illness.... Everybody who reads these lines will suffer.... My body is not ill, it is my soul that is ill. | Colin Wilson | ||
| c6ad718 | the final revelation comes when you look at these City-men on the train; for you realize that for them, the business of escaping is complicated by the fact that they think they are the prison. An astounding situation! Imagine a large castle on an island, with almost inescapable dungeons. The jailor has installed every device to prevent the prisoners escaping, and he has taken one final precaution: that of hypnotizing the prisoners, and then.. | Colin Wilson | ||
| f508c19 | We have not begun to live', Yeats writes, 'until we conceive life as a tragedy.' Newman confessed that he considered most men to be irretrievably damned, although he spent his life 'trying to make that truth less terrible to human reason'. Goethe could call his life 'the perpetual rolling of a rock that must be raised up again forever'. Martin Luther told a woman who wished him a long life: 'Madam, rather than live forty more years, I would.. | Colin Wilson |