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„To be free, as I then knew myself to be, is to realize that all conquest is vain, even the conquest of self, which is the last act of egotism. To be joyous is to carry the ego to its last summit and to deliver it triumphantly. To know peace is total: it is the moment after, when the surrenderer is complete, when there is no longer even the consciounsness of surrender. Peace is at the centre and when it is attainded the voice issues forth in praise and benediction. Then the voice carries far and wide, to the outermost limits of the universe. Then it heals, because it brings light and the warmth of compassion.“
„I venerate van Gogh. He was a remarkable human being, a man who knew about love. His work reflects a spirit filled with light, even though his life was a tragedy in many ways.“
„And I live with the dead – my mother, my sister [Sophie], my grandfather, my father [who died in 1889, when Munch was in France]… Every day is the same – my friends have stopped coming – their laughter disturbs me, tortures me…. my daily walk round the old castle becomes shorter and shorter, it tires me more and more to take walks. The fire in the fireplace is my only friend – the time I spend sitting in front of the fireplace gets longer and longer…. at its worst I lean my head against the fireplace overwhelmed by the sudden urge – Kill yourself and then it’s all over. Why live? I light the candle – my huge shadow springs across half the wall, clear up to the ceiling and in the mirror over the fireplace I see the face of my own ghost.“
„The strange light illuminated all those night-time meetings that took place in every imaginable sort of café; the lips mouthing defiant words, heedless of restraint or consequence, often overbearing and brutal as only Norwegians can be, vast shadows of impotence misery and shabbiness – spirits training for fulfillment, striving in vain to be great, complete, unique. [Munch describes the environment and atmosphere of the Norwegian bohemia in Kristiana, where he himself lived and worked when he was about 23] And at the center of all the faces there would be Jaeger, whose logic was as sharp as a scythe and as cold as an icy blast..“
„The point is that one sees things at different moments with different eyes. Differently in the morning then in the evening. The way in which one sees also depends on one’s mood…. coming in from a dark bedroom in the morning into the sitting room one will, for example, see everything in a bluish light. Even the deepest shadows are topped with bright light. After a while one will accustom oneself to the light and the shadows will be deeper and everything will be seen more sharply. If an atmosphere of this kind is being painted it won’t do merely to sit and gaze at everything ‘just as one sees’. One must paint precisely the fleeting moment of significance – one must capture the exact experience separating that significant moment from the next – the exact moment when the motif struck one… In some circumstances a chair may seem to be just as interesting as a human being. In some way or another it must have caught the interest in which case the onlooker’s interest must somehow be engaged in the same way. It’s not the chair that should be painted, but what the person has felt at the sight of it [written in Saint Cloud, 1890 – probably related to the chair of Vincent van Gogh“
„We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.“
„Neither family, nor privilege, nor wealth, nor anything but Love can light that beacon which a man must steer by when he sets out to live the better life.“
„England become a feeble-lighted Moon of America…“
„…the dark brought out the prostitutes, Malay divorcees mostly, quietly moving from light to light, gaudy and graceful, like other of night’s creatures.“
„Brutality!’ cried Tristam. The class was at last interested. ‘Beatings-up. Secret police. Torture in brightly lighted cellars. Condemnation without trial. Finger-nails pulled out with pincers. The rack. The cold-water treatment. The gouging out of eyes. The firing squad in the cold dawn. And all this because of disappointment. The Interphase.“
„Legrand scratched his cheek with one of Conté’s lead pencils and started to Koranize: I say unto you that you have been brought low by kings who lie with houris on the fat sofas of Stamboul and by those that were once among you and came from lands of the sunset, men pale but warlike, to steal your camels and women and snatch the bread from your teeth, in no wise to raise you high among the peoples of the earth. Meanwhile the C-in-C got on with other things – gunpowder factory, street-lighting, Paris-style café, accommodation for laundresses, a balloon demonstration.“
„Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on like very light and mysterious nogas, carving the whole litso of the creeching world with my cut-throat britva. And there was the slow movement and the lovely last singing movement still to come. I was cured all right.“
„A heavy task, but there was light reliefIn the Germanic ambience, boisterous, brash,Torchlit parades and pogroms, guttural griefIn emigration queues, the smash and crashOf pawnshop windows by insentient beefIn uniform, the gush of beer, the splashOf schnapps, the joy of being drunk and Aryan,Though Hitler was a teetotalitarian.Human pain meantBut little in the Gulf War’s visual grammar, aBig feast of death to feed the cinecamera“
„Sovereignty and kingship are never decided by academic debate. They are seized by force. The Ottoman dynasty appropriated by force the government of the Turks, and reigned over them for six centuries. Now the Turkish nation has effectively gained possession of its sovereignty… This is an accomplished fact… If those assembled here … see the matter in its natural light, we shall all agree. Otherwise, facts will still prevail, but some heads may roll.“
„The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.“
„If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.“
„It’s a failure only if you don’t get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.“
„I have loved in life and I have been loved.I have drunk the bowl of poison from the hands of love as nectar,and have been raised above life’s joy and sorrow.My heart, aflame in love, set afire every heart that came in touch with it.My heart has been rent and joined again;My heart has been broken and again made whole;My heart has been wounded and healed again;A thousand deaths my heart has died, and thanks be to love, it lives yet.I went through hell and saw there love’s raging fire,and I entered heaven illumined with the light of love.I wept in love and made all weep with me;I mourned in love and pierced the hearts of men;And when my fiery glance fell on the rocks, the rocks burst forth as volcanoes.The whole world sank in the flood caused by my one tear;With my deep sigh the earth trembled, and when I cried aloud the name of my beloved,I shook the throne of God in heaven.I bowed my head low in humility, and on my knees I begged of love,”Disclose to me, I pray thee, O love, thy secret.”She took me gently by my arms and lifted me above the earth, and spoke softly in my ear,”My dear one, thou thyself art love, art lover,and thyself art the beloved whom thou hast adored.“
„Sufism is a religion if one wishes to learn religion from it. But it is beyond religion, for it is the light, the sustenance of every soul, raising the mortal being to immortality.“
„May Starclan light your path.“
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