George Orwell  - Quotes

 The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity. 

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Hermann Hesse  - Quotes

 The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born first must destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The god 

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John Cowper Powys  - Quotes

 There occurred within a causal radius of Brandon Station one of those infinitesimal ripples in the creative silence of the First Cause. In the soul of the great blazing sun there were complicated superhuman vibrations [connected] ... with the feelings of a few intellectual sages who had enough imagination to recognise the conscious personality of this fiery orb as it flung far and wide its life-giving magnetic forces. Roaring, cresting, heaving, gathering, mounting, advancing, receding, the enormous fire-thoughts of this huge luminary surged relentlessly to and fro, evoking a turbulent aura of psychic activity.  

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Jack Gilbert  - Quotes

 Duende



I can't remember her name.

It's not as though I've been in bed

with that many women.

The truth is I can't even remember

her face. I kind of know how strong

her thighs were, and her beauty.

But what I won't forget

is the way she tore open

the barbecued chicken with her hands,

and wiped the grease on her breasts.
 

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