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    John Milton
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
    John Milton, Paradise Lost

  • #2
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

  • #3
    William Blake
    “I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
    William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

  • #4
    William Blake
    “The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”
    William Blake

  • #5
    Gilles Deleuze
    “What does it mean to love somebody? It is always to seize that person in a mass, extract him or her from a group, however small, in which he or she participates, whether it be through the family only or through something else; then to find that person's own packs, the multiplicities he or she encloses within himself or herself which may be of an entirely different nature. To join them to mine, to make them penetrate mine, and for me to penetrate the other person's. Heavenly nuptials, multiplicities of multiplicities. Every love is an exercise in depersonalization on a body without organs yet to be formed, and it is at the highest point of this depersonalization that some- one can be named, receives his or her family name or first name, acquires the most intense discernibility in the instantaneous apprehension of the multiplicities belonging to him or her, and to which he or she belongs. A pack of freckles on a face, a pack of boys speaking through the voice of a woman, a clutch of girls in Charlus's voice, a horde of wolves in somebody's throat, a multiplicity of anuses in the anus, mouth, or eye one is intent upon. We each go through so many bodies in each other.”
    Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

  • #6
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness―in a landscape selected at random―is when I stand among rare butterflies and their food plants. This is ecstasy, and behind the ecstasy is something else, which is hard to explain. It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love. A sense of oneness with sun and stone. A thrill of gratitude to whom it may concern―to the contrapuntal genius of human fate or to tender ghosts humoring a lucky mortal.”
    Vladimir Nabokov

  • #7
    “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
    Cesar A. Cruz

  • #8
    Henri Bergson
    “all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.”
    Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution

  • #9
    John Cheever
    “Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.”
    John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever (Pulitzer Prize Winner)



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