“Just as camphor is consumed by the flames of fire, so also, mind must be consumed by soul-fire.”
Bhagawan Nityananda (1897–1961) Hindu guru and saint
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The Chidakasha Gita (1927)
Source: Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir
“Just as camphor is consumed by the flames of fire, so also, mind must be consumed by soul-fire.”
Bhagawan Nityananda (1897–1961) Hindu guru and saint
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The Chidakasha Gita (1927)
“I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Source: Pygmalion & My Fair Lady
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.”
Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita
Opening lines.
Source: Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
"Light My Fire" (1967). Because Jim Morrison sang this as a breakthrough hit for The Doors and was the group's primary songwriter, this is often mistakenly thought to have been written by him. It was actually written by guitarist Robby Krieger, as were some other songs including "Love Her Madly," "You're Lost Little Girl" and "Touch Me" (as well as some other songs on the Soft Parade album). The second verse of the song, however, was written by Morrison.
Misattributed
Robby Krieger (1946) American rock guitarist and songwriter
"Light My Fire" (1967); because Jim Morrison sang this as The Doors first hit, and he was the group's primary songwriter, this is often mistakenly thought by many to have been written by Morrison.
Charles Bernstein (1950) American writer
"All the Whiskey in Heaven" http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080303/bernstein, The Nation, 3 March 2008
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
The Crisis No. VII
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
Letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1870), letter #342a of The Letters of Emily Dickinson (1958), edited by Thomas H. Johnson, associate editor Theodora Ward, page 474
Source: Selected Letters
Edvard Munch (1863–1944) Norwegian painter and printmaker
Quote of an entry in his Diary (22 January 1892), on the experience which inspired his famous painting, '(The Scream)' ('Shrik'), originally titled: 'Der Schrei der Natur' ('The Cry of Nature')
1880 - 1895
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Shifts