Quotes About Clarity

Moins on a de connaissances, plus on a de convictions.

Only the superfluous is sordid

The position could not have been made clearer, whatever had been said, not only to those directly involved but to Sasha, Nyusha and Bacchus; their painful embarrassment communicated itself even to the mare, the foal, the golden rays of the setting sun and the gnats buzzing and swarming around Helen's face and neck.

He craved an idea, inspired yet concrete, that would show a clear path and change the world for the better, an idea as unmistakable to a child or an ignorant fool as lightning or a roll of thunder. He craved for something new.

Più di una volta ho notato che proprio le cose cui si è appena badato durante il giorno, le idee non chiarite, le parole dette senza pensarci e alle quali non si è prestata attenzione tornano di notte in immagini concrete e vive, e diventano oggetto di sogni, quasi a rivalsa di essere state tarscurate.

In a single wave of meaning the triumphant purity of being.

I've noticed more than once that it is precisely things we have barely noticed in the daytime, thoughts not brought to clarity, words spoken without feeling and left without attention, that return at night clothed in flesh and blood, and become the subjects of dreams, as if in compensation for our neglect of them in the daytime.

para buscar a verdade é necessário estar só e romper com todos os que não a amam suficientemente.

Une solution qui vous démolit vaut mieux que n'importe quelle incertitude

Le plus clair de mon temps, je le passe à l'obscurcir, parce que la lumière me gêne.

basta fare domande per tenere la coscienza pulita, è un organo ben protetto e di agevole manutenzione.

Ce n'est pas une explication. Je n'ai pas d'explication à donner. D'ailleurs, on n'explique rien avec des mots.

but ever since she returned to my life...life doesn't make complete sense. But it definitely makes more sense than it used to.

Don't you know that I am sane and earnest now, that I am no lunatic in a mad fit, but a sane man fighting for his soul?

I suppose a cry does us all good at times—clears the air as other rain does.

what I eventually concluded was that it was necessary to cleanse one's vision in order to see the door. To do this one must return to the place, the geographical location where one last believed the world to be fluid, responsive to oneself. In short one must return to the last place in which one had stood before the iron hand of modern rationality gripped one's mind.

a Revelation. What I mean by this is that I knew it to be true before I understood why or what steps had led me there.

Without the journals I would be all at sea.

Batter-Sea is not a word,' I said at last. 'It has no referent. There is nothing in the World corresponding to that combination of sounds.

The floor of ice cream parlor bothered me. It was black-and-white checkboard tile, bigger than supermarket checkboard. If I looked only at a white square, I would be all right, but it was hard to ignore the black squares that surrounded the white ones. The contrast got under my skin. The floor meant yes, no, this, that, up, down, day, night -all the indecisions and opposites that were bad enough in life without having them spelled out for you on the floor.

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? If some people didn't see these things, what was the matter with them? Were they blind or something?

Reality was getting too dense.

Translation: I need to know the particulars of craziness so I can assure myself that I'm not crazy.

This clarity made me able to behave normally, which posed some interesting questions. Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?