The Tower: Random Quotes

"Children shudder at the scent of newness as a dog does when it scents a hare, expressing the madness which later, when we grow up, is called inspiration."
--Isaac Babel, a Russian writer

"When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."
--Sir James Matthews Barrie, Peter Pan

"In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart"
--from the Diary of Anne Frank

"...most human beings live as if in a dim cave. We are chained, he says, and facing a blank wall, with a fire at our backs. All we see are flickering shadows playing across the cave wall, and this we take to be reality. Only if we learn to turn away from the wall and the shadows, and escape from the cave, can we hope to see the true light of reality."
--Plato's Theory of Ideas, Plato, by Paul Strathern

"To the waters...and the wild...with a Faerie, hand in hand...for the world is more full of weeping...then you can understand."
--W.B. Yeats

Fairies
By a maze of gossamer dew
Measured, lay the pasture leas
Ruddy grey the sunlight glanced
Through the rippling poplar trees,
On the airy webs, where chanced
Dainty faery feet had danced
Without noise, the soft night through.
--Lionel Johnson

"Each day I go to my studio full of joy; in the evening when obliged to stop because of darkness I can scarcely wait for the morning to come...My work is not only a pleasure, it has become a necessity. No matter how many other things I have in my life, ifI cannot give myself to my dear painting I am miserable."
--Adolphe-William Bouguereau

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Hieroglyphs from Guardian's Egypt

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