“Real kindness seeks no return;
What return can the world make to rain clouds?”
Verse XXII.1
Tirukkural
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“Every teardrop returns to a cloud.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
“Under what circumstances do you think you might want to…return to the real world?”
Tim Powers (1952) American writer
The real world and I never did get along, she thought.
“I can’t imagine,” she said.
Epilogue, “I Have No Idea” (p. 287; closing words)
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“Return to the divine presence and make others return to it.”
Elia M. Ramollah (1973) founder and leader of the El Yasin Community
Flow of Divine Guidance (vol.1)
Variant: Perceive the divine presence and be freed.
“Ideologies that seek a return to a mythical purity are flying in the face of hard science.”
David Reich (geneticist) book Who We Are and How We Got Here
David Reich, Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2018, p.179
George Hendrik Breitner (1857–1923) Dutch painter and photographer
version in original Dutch (citaat van Breitner's brief, in het Nederlands:) Wees zoo goed en meld me per omgaande, met teekening en uitleg, hoe ik een [foto]-camera kan maken. - zooals ik toen bij jou gezien heb.
Quote of Breitner's letter to his friend H. van der Weele, 14 July 1883 or 1889; as cited by R. Bergsma, & P.H. Hefting, in George Hendrik Breitner 1857-1923, Bussum 1994, p. 21
There are different opinions about the year Breitner started using a photo-camera; they all differ between 1883 and 1889
before 1890
“In the end, the world returns to a grain.”
Dejan Stojanovic book Circling: 1978-1987
“A Grain,” p. 47
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “A Grain”
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
Kathleen Norris (1880–1966) American writer
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
George Moore (novelist) (1852–1933) Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist
The Brook Kerith http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12821/12821-h/12821-h.htm, ch. 11 (1916).
