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«Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.»
Author: Arthur Rubinstein
(Composer, Pianist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
dismay, dismayed, dismaying, one by one, One The, phantoms, played, The Phantom, The Phantom of
«When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intelligence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them»
Author: Eliphas Levi
| Keywords:
creates, nightmare, nourish, One Blood, phantoms, puts, satisfying, The Phantom, The Phantom of, vampire, vampires, voluntary
«There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.»
«The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.»
Author: Gaston Bachelard
(Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
inn, phantoms, refreshes, repose, sweep, The Shadows
«I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.»
Author: Luigi Pirandello
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
A Beautiful Mind, phantoms, spend-all, The Phantom, The Phantom of, weighs
«The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.»
Author: Michelangelo
| About:
Goals
| Keywords:
confide, confided, confides, confiding, for the most part, phantoms, promises, safest, The Phantom, The Phantom of
«How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible. There is no such thing in the universe. There can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment.»
«Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
cost, cram, crammed, cramming, crams, fairly, glut, glutted, in the raw, market, material, nations, phantoms, raw, raw material, raw materials, The God, The Phantom, The Phantom of
«Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Fear
| Keywords:
assist, beset, besets, besetting, overbear, overbearing, overborne, phantoms, preservative, preservatives, tyrannize, tyrannizes
«Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans / the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
American elder, featherweight, fewer, furniture, grandparent, grandparents, Human Touch, landscape, landscapes, museum, pans, patina, phantoms, portable, pots, The Phantom, The Phantom of, The Used, transistorized, transistorizes
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