In this passionately social world, loneliness dogged the spirit. People were constantly “getting together,” but they never really got there. Everyone was terrified of being alone with himself; yet in company, in spite of the universal assumption of comradeship, these strange beings remained as remote from one another as the stars. For everyone searched his neighbour’s eyes for the image of himself, and never saw anything else. Or if he did, he was outraged and terrified.
Olaf StapledonTag: social loneliness terror images
Like the children in fairy stories who have seen their parents make pacts with terrifying strangers, who have discovered that our fears are based on nothing but the truth, but who come back fresh from marvellous escapes and take up their knives and forks, with humility and good manners, prepared to live happily ever after -- like them, dazed and powerful with secrets, I never said a word
Alice MunroTag: images
Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.
Paul AusterTag: time paintings painting image images
The images of things are not the things in themselves.
E.L. DoctorowTag: consciousness images
How can women be in the image of God if God cannot be imaged in female form?
Marcus J. BorgDreams and visions are not always intended to be interpreted or analyzed. At times they say exactly what they mean, providing a set of images and meanings to be taken for no more or less than they are.
Hal Zina BennettTag: dreams visions images meanings interpreting
Remembering the past always comes with an image or a view attached.
Orhan PamukTag: memory remembering images
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