Quotes About Revelation

Here, in the realm of three-dimensional wax, the mirror is painted. The only credible reasons are symbolic. Confronting an instance where Art played consciously with Illusion and admitted the vanity of images through the image of an image, the industry of the Absolute Fake didn't dare venture to copy, because it would have come too close to the revelation of its own falsehood.

That was when I saw the Pendulum.

My boy, this is the second time today that wisdom has spoken through your mouth...!

She was, as Lanny had told Esther, a true granddaughter of the Puritans. Her forefathers had sailed in a tiny vessel across a turbulent sea and landed on a cold, inhospitable coast; they had risked their lives for the sake of freedom of conscience. Now Bess was ready to give her happiness for the sake of this new religion which despised religion but which manifested all the symptoms and practiced all the zealotry of those who had received a revelation direct from God.

They came out into the sunshine and the wind, one after the other like dice falling from a cup.

Women make up half the world; and I thought I had reached the stage where there was nothing in a woman's nakedness to surprise me. But I felt now as if I was experiencing anew, and seeing a woman for the first time.

I wondered that clothes, even the apparently revealing tropical clothes I had seen on Yvette, should have concealed so much, should have broken the body up, as it were, into separate parts and not really hinted at the splendour of the whole.

Crises expose realities and strip away obfuscation and misdirection.

finally to have a sex life, even if it was deeper in the closet than Narnia.

Sometimes the very thing you're looking for is the one thing you cannot see.

There is a much that a man should not see, should not know, and if he should see it, it is better for him to die.

There were truths that grew between people which they could not know themselves until some sharp moment of destiny brought them to light.

From each god his own way of revelation. And for each man his own way of marking the shadow which his god casts.

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

La vérité est comme le soleil, elle fait tout voir et ne se laisse pas regarder.

La lumière est dans le livre. Ouvrez le livre tout grand. Laissez-le rayonner, laissez-le faire.

There is lucidity inspired by the nearness of the grave:to be close to death is to see clearly

The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Noise does not waken a drunkard; silence wakens him.

A frightful exchange of metaphors took place between the maskers and the crowd.

I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality.

La forme, c'est le fond qui remonte à la surface.