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"It was reading Hume, that awakened me from my dogmatic slumber..."
Immanuel Kant

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"I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure."
Virginia Woolf

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"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do
If bees are few."
Emily Dickinson

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"I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you - Nobody - Too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise - you know!
How dreary - to be - Somebody!
How public - like a Frog -
To tell one's name - the livelong June -
To an admiring Bog!"
Emily Dickinson

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"I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos."
Sun Ra

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"An anti-Communist is a dog. I couldn't see any way out of that one and I never will."
Jean-Paul Sartre

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"By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide."
Jean Genet

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"The poet cannot stay too long in the stratosphere of the Verb."
René Char

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"I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world, one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition."
Barack Obama

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"I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go? I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away."
J. D. Salinger

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"Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."
Susan Sontag

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"But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present and fear the future. When they come to an end of it, the poor wretches realize too late that for all this time they have been preoccupied in doing nothing."
Seneca

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''Indeed, now that I have fixed my eyes upon it, I feel that I have grasped a plank in the sea; I feel a satisfying sense of reality which at once turns the two Archbishops and the Lord High Chancellor to the shadows of shades. Here is something definite, something real. Thus, waking from a midnight dream of horror, one hastily turns on the light and lies quiescent, worshipping the chest of drawers, worshipping solidity, worshipping reality, worshipping the impersonal world which is a proof of some existence other than ours. That is what one wants to be sure of...''
Virginia Woolf

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"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."
Virginia Woolf

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''When we speak the word 'life', it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.''
Antonin Artaud

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"Accumulate, then distribute. Of the mirror of the universe be the part that is densest, most useful and least apparent."
René Char

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"He who is the disciple of Khidr [an invisible master] possesses sufficient inner strength to seek freely the teaching of all masters. Of this the biography of Ibn 'Arabi, who frequented all the masters of his day and welcomed their teachings, offers living proof."
Ibn al-'Arabi
translation and adaptation: Henry Corbin

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"There is a truth of exile and there is a vocation of exile."
Maurice Blanchot

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''Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.''
Emily Dickinson

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''The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.''
Simone Weil

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''To paint a bird's portrait
First of all, paint a cage
with an opened little door...''
Jacques Prévert

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''The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.''
Marcel Proust

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''All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.''
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semitransparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."
Virginia Woolf

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''The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.''
George Berkeley

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''Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.''
Emily Dickinson

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"... A flow of words seeking their most crystal-clear order, snatches of sentences being endlessly reworked, ideas dawning then threatening to evaporate if a word or a symbol didn't swiftly fix them in memory."
André Gorz

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"I long for my mother's bread
My mother's coffee
Her touch
Childhood memories grow up in me
Day after day
I must be worth my life
At the hour of my death
Worth the tears of my mother."
Mahmoud Darwish

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"An ego thus educated has become reasonable; it no longer lets itself be governed by the pleasure principle, but obeys the reality principle, which also at bottom seeks to obtain pleasure, but pleasure which is assured through taking account of reality, even though it is pleasure postponed and diminished."
Sigmund Freud

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''Life itself is a quotation.''
Jorge Luis Borges

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"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
Emily Dickinson

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“It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open...”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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''The visage of being that shows itself in war is fixed in the concept of totality, which dominates Western philosophy. Individuals are reduced to being bearers of forces that command them unbeknown to themselves. The meaning of individuals (invisible outside of this totality) is derived from the totality. The unicity of each present is incessantly sacrificed to a future appealed to bring forth its objective being.''
Emmanuel Levinas

Please note that 51 is the picture of a picture, focused on a detail - by reframing.
Source: AP/Anja Niedringhaus Original picture 28/32

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"I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me."
Martin Buber

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''I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.''
Arthur Rimbaud

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''You were born with wings.Why prefer to crawl through life?''
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

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''He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.''
Michel de Montaigne

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"This mere woolgathering; this sitting in a chair day in, day out, with a cigarette and a sheet of paper and a pen and an ink pot.''
Virginia Woolf

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''If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.''
Emily Dickinson

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“Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.”
Nazim Hikmet

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"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."
Baruch Spinoza

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“It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.”
Virginia Woolf

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"And my identity card is number fifty thousand..."
Mahmoud Darwish

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“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”
Pablo Neruda

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"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning."
Warren Buffett

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“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery -always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?”
Virginia Woolf

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“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”
Charlie Parker

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“When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.”
Jacques Prévert

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"Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise."

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"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
Henry Ford