Maria

“It’s very simple: what are we gaining—excuse me if I’m repeating myself—what are we gaining by a pragmatism that robs our life of poetry, dreams, mysticism—are these all lies? What is truth? Can you tell me that? We can only struggle along by using symbols, and we change them as we alter our views. By the way, let’s not neglect our drinks.”
― Knut Hamsun, Mysteries

“One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin

“there some great wisdom to be gained by calibrating exactly how worthless a mind I have?”
― Orson Scott Card, Pathfinder

“—I told you, we must cut out imagination. In everyone...Extirpate imagination. Nothing but surgery, nothing but surgery will do!”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, WE