“The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you’ve gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?”
— Chuang Tzu
“The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d;”
— Alexander Pope from Eloisa to Abelard
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
“Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.”
— Lewis Carrol
“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”
— Ludwig van Beethoven
“It is with extreme reluctance that I dwell upon the appalling scene which ensued; a scene which, with its minutest details, no after events have been able to efface in the slightest degree from my memory, and whose stern recollection will embitter every future moment of my existence.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
“People live in constant fear. It is out of fear that they worship; out of fear they get married; out of fear of insecurity they beget children. Whenever fear emerges, there is a leakage of energy. Fear creates a hurt body and it tries to survive by quoting philosophy and logic.”
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
— Oscar Wilde
“the whole world is in love, and i guess am the only one at peace.”
“I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.”
— Jim Morrison
“For God’s sake, go down to reception and get rid of a lunatic who’s down there. He says he’s got a machine for seeing by wireless! Watch him — he may have a razor on him.”
— Editor of the London Daily Express, refusing to see John Logie Baird, inventor of television, 1925 from Futility Closet
“You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.”
— Anonymous
“Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.”
— Edward Albee
“When all the strings of my life will be tuned, then at every touch of Yours will come out the music of love.”
— Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali
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