“I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.”
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Vikram Seth12
Indian writer 1952Related quotes
“I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.”
Novalis (1772–1801) German poet and writer
As quoted in Romantic Vision, Ethical Context: Novalis and Artistic Autonomy (1987) by Géza von Molnár, p. 2
Context: I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance
Throughout my being's limitless expanse,
Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages
I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.
Czeslaw Milosz book The Captive Mind
The Captive Mind (1953)
Context: Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.
“Nostalgia: How long's that been around?”
Bill Bailey (1965) English comedian, musician, actor, TV and radio presenter and author
Is It Bill Bailey? (TV, 1998)
Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist
"Silver Horse" on Season of Glass (1981).
Context: I usually stay away from being carried away,
But one day I saw a silver horse.
I thought he might take me to that somewhere high,
I thought he might take me to that deep blue sky. I came to realize that the horse had no wings.
No wings, well, it wasn't so bad, you know. I learnt to travel the world around
And run on the ground in the morning.
And that's the story of a wandering soul,
A story of a dreamer.
FM-2030 (1930–2000) author, teacher, transhumanist philosopher, futurist and consultant
"Transhuman FM-2030" http://www.transhuman.org/transhumanfm-2030.htm, transhuman.org
H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author
"Beyond the Wall of Sleep" in Pine Cones, Vol. 1, No. 6 (October 1919)
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