Quotes About Transformation
Preparation for ultimate death is to be aware that your highest and most intense form of life is accompanied by, and conditional upon, a series of small deaths all the time. We have to be dying to these obsessive memories..
~ Aldous Huxley
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We are forever attempting to convert things into signs for the more intelligible abstractions of our own invention. But in doing so, we rob these things of a great deal of their native thinghood.
~ Aldous Huxley
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La visión de aquel rostro transfigurado era a la vez una acusación y un irónico recordatorio de su propio aislamiento. Bernard se sentía ahora tan desdichadamente aislado como cuando había empezado el Servicio; más aislado a causa de su vaciedad no llenada, de su saciedad mortal. Separado y fuera de la armonía, en tanto que los otros se fundían en el Ser Más Grande.
~ Aldous Huxley
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Pero el hombre que regresa por la Puerta en el Muro ya no será nunca el mismo que salió por ella. Será más instruido y menos engreído, estará más contento y menos satisfecho de sí mismo, reconocerá su ignorancia más humildemente, pero, al mismo tiempo
~ Aldous Huxley
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I wrenched DOG backwards to find GOD; now GOD barks.
~ Aleister Crowley
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I became an entirely different animal. In fact, I've often thought that there isn't any I at all ; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.
~ Aleister Crowley
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All that was ordered and stable is shaken. The Æon of Wonders is come. Like locusts shall they gather themselves together, the servants of the Star and the Snake, and they shall eat up everything that is upon the earth. For why? Because the Lord of Righteousness delighteth in them. (16:6)
~ Aleister Crowley
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The truth of the profane was the falsehood of the Neophyte, and the truth of the Neophyte was the falsehood of the Zelator! Again and again the fortress must be battered down! Again and again the pylon must be overthrown! Again and again must the gods be desecrated!
~ Aleister Crowley
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El pasado ya no tenía formas ni el futuro nubes.
~ Alejandro Dumas
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Antes de ahora tenía una vida y mi violín —dijo, poniéndome la mano en el brazo —. Ahora sólo me queda el violín. Y ahí empezó todo. Empezó Serena.
~ Alejandro Palomas
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The anxious wait lasted four years, and the alert ears never despaired of hearing, at any moment, the voice of the great conch shell which would bellow through the hills to announce to all that Macandal had completed the cycle of his metamorphoses, and stood poised once more, sinewy and hard, with testicles like rocks, on his own human legs (36-37).
~ Alejo Carpentier
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When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
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Makeup peeled off her like plaster from an old Moscow building.
~ Aleksandr Kuprin
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Nereye varacak bu politik materyalizmin sonu? Bu gidi?e dur demenin zaman? geldi art?k!
~ Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin
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La realtà sfuma e tutto diventa memoria. Perfino tu, a poco a poco, hai cessato di essere un desiderio e sei diventato un ricordo.
~ Alessandro Baricco
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Tu eri morto – disse – e non c'era più niente di bello, al mondo.
~ Alessandro Baricco
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Morir es tan solo una forma particularmente exacta de envejecer.
~ Alessandro Baricco
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Si muoveva come raccogliendo ogni volta pezzi di se stessa che non erano destinati a rimanere insieme. Il suo corpo sembrava il risultato di uno sforzo di volontà.
~ Alessandro Baricco
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You fill it [an aviary] up, with as many as you can. Then one day when something good happens to you, you throw it open and watch them fly away.
~ Alessandro Baricco
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Forse è che la vita, alle volte, ti gira in un modo che non c'é proprio più niente da dire.
~ Alessandro Baricco
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Tal vez la vida, a veces, te cambia de una forma que no hay nada más que decir.
~ Alessandro Baricco
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Perchè ciò che si salverà non sarà mai quel che abbiamo tenuto al riparo dai tempi, ma ciò che abbiamo lasciato mutare, perchè ridiventasse se stessi un un tempo nuovo.
~ Alessandro Baricco
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Siamo gente schizofrenica, che al mattino ragione come Hegel, e dopo pranzo si muta in pesce, e respira con le branchie.
~ Alessandro Baricco
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Il resto della notte mi sembra adesso, a lasciarlo tornare nella memoria, un lago senza inizio né fine, dove ogni riflesso è ancora lì a luccicare, ma ogni sponda è perduta, e illeggibile la brezza. So però che non avevo mani, prima di quel lago, né avevo mai respirato in quel modo, insieme a qualcun altro, o smarrito il mio corpo in una pelle che non era la mia.
~ Alessandro Baricco
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