True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse.
― Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations
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Kaleidoscope #844
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
–Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
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Kaleidoscope #843
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.
–Orhan Pamuk, The New Life
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Kaleidoscope #842
Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
–Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
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Kaleidoscope #841
Isn’t it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them will be.
–Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy in Spite of Herself
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Kaleidoscope #840
The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real … for a moment at least … that long magic moment before we wake.
― George R.R. Martin
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Kaleidoscope #839
You know how writers are… they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.
― Orson Scott Card
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Kaleidoscope #838
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.
― Madeleine L’Engle
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Kaleidoscope #837
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
― Gustave Flaubert
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Kaleidoscope #836
Blessed are the weird people:
poets, misfits, writers
mystics, painters, troubadours
for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.
― Jacob Nordby, Pearls of Wisdom: 30 Inspirational Ideas to live your best life now
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D.M. Sessous: writer, artist & dreamer 