“Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar, are perhaps forgotten by most people; or else they are guarded in some secret place of memory because they were too much like visitations by the gods to be mixed with everyday thinking.” PeopleThinkingWorldMomentsMemoriesSecretToo MuchPoetFindingsOriginalsEverydayForgottenFamiliarUnfamiliarOutside WorldGuardedVisitationSecret Places Book:The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men: Forty-Four Years of Exploring Psychoanalysis Source: The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men: Forty-Four Years of Exploring Psychoanalysis
“Father and Mother had told their own little lies very well, and I realized immediately that the Gerrisens didn't know a thing. And yet, my realization that they didn't know what I'd been through was like a cold shower for just a moment. Here I was looking at the first really familiar faces I'd seen in over a year, and they acted as though I'd merely been on vacation.” KnowsYearsFirstsWellsLittlesMomentsFacesLyingMotherFatherColdI RealizedFamiliarRealizationVacationShowersFamiliar Faces Author:Diet Eman
“If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs.” IfsTryingLongHas BeensMomentsRememberLyingNamesGoneReturnPressesFamiliarInstantBreastsForgivenStrokesBetrayed Author:Roger Zelazny
“All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.” MenMomentsJoyFateBearsSorrowFamiliarMisfortunesDefinite Author:Honore de Balzac