Quotes About Revelation

old lovers? Why didn't you tell me?

Coincidence is a messenger sent by the truth." [Dr. Maurice Blanche]

When we had finally become friends, when the four of us trusted each other enough to let the world surrounding us into our words, we whispered secrets. Pressed side by side by side, or sitting crossed legged in our newly tight circle. We opened our mouths and let the stories that had burned nearly to ash in our bellies finally live outside of us.

May, I am thinking, there is something hidden like this in all of us. A small gift from the universe waiting to be discovered. (233) Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen. (278)

Maybe, I am thinking, there is something hidden like this, in all of us. A small gift from the universe waiting to be discovered. My

I hid you from them, you know, she said—like she was looking into my head finally. Seeing something there. That's how you got here. They were hella good Catholics back then, but you would have been dust. From who?

There are no coincidences. If something happens and we don't understand the reason, that doesn't mean there is no reason. It means that the reason will later be revealed, likely not in this life.

It was an epiphany, the kind only a horrible trauma can induce.

Un jour, d'elle-même, elle se farda les ongles en rouge. Jamais, jusque là, elle n'avait osé le faire. Ce qui la saisit, ce fut que ses ongles ressentirent le froid du vernis. Elle eut alors le sentiment que notre corps en a toujours de nouvelles à nous apprendre.

We are all bundles of wild and warrantless convictions, especially about one another, and when one gets an accidental glimpse of someone else's candid mind, the sight is dread-inspiring. For his cozy chamber of horrors - and particularly his facts - are owned and enjoyed in complete faith.

A secret to which truth has always initiated her lovers, and through which they have learned that it is in hiding that she offers to them most truly.

A secret to which truth has always initiated her lovers, and through which they have learned that it is in hiding that she offers herself to them most truly.

poézia je nutná práve do tej miery, nako?ko je neužito?ná a slobodná, pretože ?u?om prináša zjavenie skuto?nosti mimo skuto?nos?, skúsenos? skrytých významov vecí, tajomné spolo?enstvo so svetom krásy, bez ktorého ?udia nemôžu ani ži?, ani vies? mravný život.

Dobro znam da mi jedino istina može dati radost i slobodu.

La estructura acabada no estaba en ninguna parte, como tal, preformada. Pero el plan de la estructura estaba presente en sus mismos constituyentes. Puede pues realizarse de forma autónoma y espontánea, sin intervención exterior, esto es, sin inyección de nueva información. La información estaba presente, aunque no expresada, en los constituyentes. La construcción epigenética de una estructura no es una creación, es una revelación.

Don't tell my mother I work in an advertising agency — she thinks I play piano in a whorehouse.

Both the devil and the artist share the same dream: to unknow the world.

To eat an egg, you must break the shell.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Yes. Andrew. Ralph, I have to tell you about Jay." Hannah and Mary looked at each other. With everything that Andrew said, from then on, they realized in a sense which they had failed to before, that it had really happened and that it was final.

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

Luigi Giussani

Guardate, la verità ha un volto semplice: basta che uno apra gli occhi.