Quotes About Reflection

Every time the sun shone on me in the morning, I couldn't help thinking that from that moment on my day would begin to be like that of an ordinary child. But it wasn't out of discontent that this feeling came to me; it was a sense of self-sufficiency and satisfaction.

Later I wrote a composition that my grammar teacher Ohara Y?ichi praised as the best since the founding of Keika Middle School. But when I read it over now, it's precious and pretentious enough to make me blush.

Perhaps it is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.)

Perhaps because I was just a child, I didn't perceive the slightest specter of our dark militarism.

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself. [Pg.189]

In other words, take "myself," subtract "movies" and the result is "zero.

But I prefer to think of my brother as a negative strip of film that led to my own development as a positive image.

I had been ready to reproach her for the indignities she had caused me to suffer in the past, but suddenly I was moved by this figure of an old woman I no longer recognized, and all I could do was stare vacantly down at her.

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

I'm thankful for every moment.

In the stress and strain of life today, with space rockets zooming, loudspeakers thundering in our ears, and a lot of other sounds, the voice of your subconscious goes unnoticed.

It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

So much past inside my present. —Feist

Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.

What is a thousand years Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

What is ten thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

Notre stoïcien a dix fois raison : Supprime le jugement, tu supprimes le mal

Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history. The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity. The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.

We do not want to count; we want to think the count.

When you look at the Moon, you think, "I'm really small. What are my problems?" It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.