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- Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp... If I remember the sunflower forest it is because from its hidden…
- Man no longer dreams over a book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs with him through the pangs of…
- I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.
- It has been said that great art is the night thought of man. It may emerge without warning from the soundless depths of the unconscious,…
- We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories.…
- One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.
- It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows…
- Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man both sit brooding…
- As we passed under a streetlamp I noticed, beside my own bobbing shadow, another great, leaping grotesquerie that had an uncanny suggestion of the frog…
- Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around…
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