“The flowers flashed before they faded. She watched them flash.”
Virginia Woolf book Between the Acts
Between the Acts (1941)
“Originality is not something continuous but something intermittent — a flash of the briefest duration. One must have the time and be watchful (be attuned) to catch the flash and fix it.”
Entry (1961)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)
Context: Originality is not something continuous but something intermittent — a flash of the briefest duration. One must have the time and be watchful (be attuned) to catch the flash and fix it. One must know how to catch and preserve these scant flakes of gold sluiced out of the sand and rocks of everyday life. Originality does not come nugget-size.
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Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
Also quoted in Between the Devil and the Dragon : The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer (1982)
Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.”
Gerard Way (1977) American musician and comic book writer
Olaf Stapledon book Last and First Men
Source: Last and First Men (1930), Chapter XIV: Neptune; Section 1, “Bird’s-Eye View” (p. 206)
Myles Munroe (1954–2014) Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister
Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage
Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) French writer and philosopher
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Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)
