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Parva Scaena (Brief Scenes): Set Twelve
“Chingachgook grasped the hand that, in the warmth of feeling, the scout had stretched across the fresh earth, and in that attitude of friendship these intrepid woodsmen bowed their heads together, while scalding tears fell to their feet, watering the grave of Uncas like drops of falling rain.”
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Photographers Unknown, Parva Scaena (Brief Scenes): Set Eleven
“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies—all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.”
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Photographers Unknown, Parva Scaena (Brief Scenes): Set Ten
“And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done– done, see you!– under that sky there, every day.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Photographers Unknown, Parva Scaena (Brief Scenes): Set Nine
“I must cease living the false life of an imposter, and stop worrying about the future or risk sacrificing the joy of living in the moment. I am a seeker. I shall listen to the teaching my blood whispers and ecstatically accept life unfolding in whatever manner my innate material demands.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Parva Scaena (Brief Scenes): Set Eight
“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances. If they cannot enter the circle of your life, do not deny them at least a nod of recognition.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Painting as a Pastime
Photographers Unknown, Parva Scaena (Brief Scenes): Set Seven
“I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn’t. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.”
― Paulo Coelho
Photographer Unknown, Parva Scaena (Brief Scenes): Set Six
“The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you’ll see that they’re all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Masks of the Illuminati
Photographers Unknown, Parva Scaena (Brief Scenes): Set Five
“He who travels far will often see things
Far removed from what he believed was Truth.
When he talks about it in the fields at home,
He is often accused of lying,
For the obdurate people will not believe
What they do not see and distinctly feel.
Inexperience, I believe,
Will give little credence to my song.”
―Hermann Hesse, The Journey to the East
Parva Scaena (Brief Scenes): Set Four
“Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.”
― C.S.Lewis, Till We Have Faces
Parva Scaena (Brief Scenes): Set Three
“I’m going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
― Jean-Paul Satre, No Exit
Photographer Unknown, Parva Scaena (Brief Scenes): Set Two
“Again, there were maidens who cherished the firm belief that he had come from the sea. Because within his breast could be heard the roaring of the sea. Because in the pupils of his eyes lingered the mysterious and eternal horizon that the sea leaves as a keepsake deep in the eyes of all who are born at the seaside and forced to depart from it. Because his signs were sultry like the tidal breezes of full summer, fragrant with the smell of seaweed cast upon the shore.”
― Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask
Parva Scaena (Brief Scenes): Set One
“But every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend