“Supposedly, dreams reflect our hidden fears and secret desires, all clamoring for attention.”
Rachel Hawthorne (1950) American author
Source: Full Moon
“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”
— Italo Calvino, book Invisible Cities
Page 44.
Source: Invisible Cities (1972)
Context: With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.
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Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea
Reflections on a chestnut tree root.
Nausea (1938)
Context: Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know everything, I had not seen the seeds sprout, or the tree grow. But faced with this great wrinkled paw, neither ignorance nor knowledge was important: the world of explanations and reasons is not the world of existence. A circle is not absurd, it is clearly explained by the rotation of a straight segment around one of its extremities. But neither does a circle exist. This root, on the other hand, existed in such a way that I could not explain it.
“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.”
Henry Ford book My Life and Work
My Life and Work (1922)
“Everything, alas, is an abyss, — actions, desires, dreams,
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Hélas! tout est abîme, — action, désir, rêve,<br>Parole! <br class="br">"Le Gouffre" [The Abyss], Nouvelles Fleurs du Mal (1862) http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Gouffre