“I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Oscar Wilde812
Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
As quoted in Melody Maker (1991-09-14).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print
“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.”
Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar
Source: The Bell Jar
“I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.”
William G. Boykin (1948) Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
Remarks on the war on terror US is 'battling Satan' says general http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3199212.stm (17 October 2003)
Frans de Waal (1948) Dutch primatologist and ethologist
On his first encounter with bonobos
The Bonobo in All of Us (2007)
Context: I first saw them in 1978. At the time, I knew a lot about chimps, because I had been studying them. I saw the bonobos at a zoo in Holland, and I thought immediately, they're totally different. The sense you get looking them in the eyes is that they're more sensitive, more sensual, not necessarily more intelligent, but there's a high emotional awareness, so to speak, of each other and also of people who look at them.
“I always thought that
I was me — but no,
I was you
and never knew it.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
Hush Don't Say Anything to God (1999)
