{"id":20377,"date":"2013-05-30T17:11:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T23:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=20377"},"modified":"2013-06-09T16:00:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T22:00:33","slug":"and-yet-more-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=20377","title":{"rendered":"And yet more quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cRemember, it is the secret force hidden deep within us that manipulates our strings; there lies the voice of persuasion, there the very life, there, we might even say, is the man himself. Never confuse
\nit in your imagination with its surrounding case of flesh, or the organs adhering thereto, which save that they grow upon the body, are as much mere instruments as the carpenter\u2019s axe.<\/p>\n

Without the agency that prompts or restrains their motions, the parts themselves are of no more service than her shuttle to the weaver, his pen to the writer, or his whip to the wagoner.<\/p>\n

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\u2014<\/td>\nMarcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180)<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nD.H. Lawrence<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nGeorge Eliot<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cWhen writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nJorge Luis Borges<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cI have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.\u201d<\/strong>
\n\u2013\u00a0Jorge Luis Borges<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n
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\u201cThere is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nCarl Jung<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nCarl Sandberg<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cForget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you\u2019re going to do now and do it.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nWilliam Durant<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cI am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nSylvia Plath<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nTractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 6.44,Ludwig Wittgenstein<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nAna\u00efs Nin<\/em>\u00a0– Fire<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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