“He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.”
Source: Two Boys Kissing
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David Levithan 447
American author and editor 1972Related quotes
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“It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new.”
Source: Generation Loss (2007), Ch. 1
Context: It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. That of course was before I disappeared.
“Omnipresence has become an ordinary human dimension.”
1970s, Forces interview (1973)
...князь утверждает, что мир спасет красота! А я утверждаю, что у него оттого такие игривые мысли, что он теперь влюблен.
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 140.
Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)
Le propre d’un grand homme est de dérouter les calculs ordinaires. Il est sublime et attendrissant, naïf et gigantesque.
Part I, ch. XV.
Letters of Two Brides (1841-1842)
Quoted in: Ann Livermore (1988), Artists and Aesthetics in Spain. p. 154
Attributed from posthumous publications