The Life, the Universe, and Everything
Quotes by Erich Fromm (Mar. 23, 1900 – Mar. 18, 1980)
Source: http://www.phillwebb.net/History/TwentiethCentury/continental/Marxism/Fromm/Fromm2.jpg
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating [...]
“Our imagination flies — we are its shadow on the earth.” (Vladimir Nabokov)
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
“Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
“I [...]
End it!
January begins with the advice “End it!”. The advice is related to my “non-relationship” with the man I am in love with. I called him an entity in a cyberspace, but what I really wanted to say was “NON-entity”.
Moving on. January is a time to begin, not to end. But every ending is a [...]
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“Every word of love I used to say, now I paint it every day…”
“I sold my strings, my songs and dreams…”
“When you leave my colours fade to gray,
Hey, little lover stay,
Or all my colours fade away…”
Sergei Yesenin (4 Oct. 1985 – 27 Dec. 1925)
Silver bluebell, are you singing,
Or, perchance, my heart is dreaming?
Light from rosy icon flashes
Falling on my golden lashes.
Though I’m not that gentle infant
in the flapping splash of pigeons,
Yet my dreams are sweet and distant,
Somewhere in the woodland regions.
I don’t need the narrow house,
Word and mystery won’t welcome.
Teach [...]
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