Nomadic Modular Structures Quotes & Sayings

In one of these tales, 'The Ascetic', the title character tells his interlocutor that paradises and nirvanas are 'illusions inside other illusions. If you dream you're dreaming, is the dream you dream less real than the dream you dream you're dreaming?' This sort of musing is vaguely reminiscent of Disquiet in its formative phase, which may be why Pessoa decided to entrust it to Guedes, whose wide-ranging literary talents made him a potentially excellent author-administrator of such a capacious work. — Fernando Pessoa

Are you tall? Are you strong? How big are your hands? You must be honest with yourself or you will end up using the wrong bat. — Pete Rose

Sickness is the first warning that we have made a wrong judgement. A healthy person is never unhappy. — George Ohsawa

That night after my parents had kissed me good night and closed my door, I got out of bed and took from my shirt pocket the three seeds I had carried since we left the ant kingdom. Everything else I'd gathered, I realized, had been either given away or given back. Way back on my closet shelf was a tiny woven Indian basket with a cover. My grandfather had given me this when I was only nine years old, but it had always held some sort of secret for me. Into this basket I put the seeds, and hid it again.
"We'll use them," I told Scuro as I got back into bed. "Just wait. We'll use them."
He sighed and rearranged himself on his rug in the corner. I noticed then that the kitten-a shy little creature only recently come to our household and up till now afraid of everything including Scuro-was curled between Scuro's paws, purring in its sleep. — Sheila Moon

If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay. — Branford Marsalis

I am not going to think about the things I am not going to think about. — Nenia Campbell

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control. — William Graham Sumner

In a way, she was disappointed. She had hoped that somehow the humans would surprise her and show a capacity that she had yet to discover, something that would make them worthy adversaries. But they were merely talking monkeys, an unfortunate anomaly staining the elegance of the animal kingdom, and the entire world was worse off for it. — Robert Repino

Water purling between the rocks, weed under the surface like green hair in the wind. — Mark Haddon