"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."
Virginia Woolf
Truth and illusion, George. You don't know the difference.
-Who's Afraid of Virginian Woolf
@edgarblythe,
"Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions"
~Friedrich Nietzsche
On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873)
“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
― Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back
@Lustig Andrei,
Quote:"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."
Virginia Woolf
Virginia knew you well, Andrei.
@edgarblythe,
"My life seems unreal,
My crime an illusion,
A scene badly written
In which I must play."
~Paul Simon
"Wednesday Morning, 3 AM"
“It's funny how when you're little, you miss all the little lies. They float right past you, but you don't wonder about them much. For a long time, you think this is just something adults still do after being kids - pretend. Then one day you wake up and realize most of the world you're in is built on someone's make-believe.”
― V.C. Andrews, Misty
"I don't give a ****, God sent me to piss the world off" eminem
“In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.”
― Vincent van Gogh
@edgarblythe,
"You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend."
Yasser Arafat, on going to war over religion.
Yes, Yasser Arafat.
"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
Marcel Proust
“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?”
― Chris Rock
@edgarblythe,
That was an excellent quote about Rodin ed.
"And thus I clothe my naked villany
With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."
~William Shakespeare
Richard III (Act I, scene iii)
“Life ... is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
@George,
Shakespeare sure was good. Isn't it odd that a guy this good didn't know English grammar?
“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
― William Shakespeare
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
― C.G. Jung
