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“Nothing is so strange when one is in love ... as the complete indifference of other people.”
Mrs. Dalloway • Virginia Woolf“One who daily puts the finishing touches on his life is never in want of time.”
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales • Lucius Annaeus Seneca“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”
What is art? • Leo Tolstoy“There is a kind of sleep that steals upon us sometimes , which, while it holds the body prisoner, does not free the mind from a sense of things about it, and enable it to ramble as it pleases. So far as an overpowering heaviness, a prostration of strength, and an utter inability to control our thoughts or power of motion can be called sleep, this is it; and yet we have a consciousness of all that is going on about us, and even if we dream, words which are really spoken, or sounds which really exist at the moment, accommodate themselves with surprising readiness to our visions, until reality and imagination become so strangely blended that it is afterwards almost a matter of impossibility to separate the two.”
Oliver Twist • Charles Dickens““Did you never observe the narrow intelligence flashing from the keen eye of a clever rogue—how eager he is, how clearly his paltry soul sees the way to his end; he is the reverse of blind, but his keen eye-sight is forced into the service of evil, and he is mischievous in proportion to his cleverness?””
Republic • Plato