“A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.”
Source: The Neverending Story
“This time can be seen as a time when we are experiencing the birth pains of new civilization... It's not me. It's the power of the inner truth of the story. It's an honor... a privilege.”
The State of the World 2010, public lecture in New York City, USA, (July 2010)
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artist, author, esotericist 1922–2016Related quotes
“You have taken from me the one privilege of civil war – the power of granting life to the defeated.”
Unica belli
praemia civilis, victis donare salutem,
perdidimus.
Book IX, line 1066 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.”
Book III, Ch. 13. Of Experience
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?”
Source: It Had to Be You
Source: Rivers of London (2011; American edition title: Midnight Riot), Chapter 10, “The Blind Spot” (p. 210)
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
Virginia Woolf
book
The Waves
Source: The Waves (1931), pp. 39-40
Context: Here on this ring of grass we have sat together, bound by the tremendous power of some inner compulsion. The trees wave, the clouds pass. The time approaches when these soliloquies shall be shared. We shall not always give out a sound like a beaten gong as one sensation strikes and then another. Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens.
