“I've always been aware of the otherworld, of spirits that exist in that twilight place that lies in the corner of our eyes, of fairie and stranger things still that we spy only when we're not really paying attention to them, whispers and flickering shadows, here one moment, gone the instant we turn our heads for a closer look. But I couldn't always find them. And when I did, for a long time I thought they were only this excess of imagination that I carry around inside me, that somehow it was leaking out of me into the world.” WorldLooksLongStillsMomentsEyeSpiritLyingTurnsImaginationAttentionGoneLong TimeShadowCornersStrangerPay AttentionInstantExcessTwilightSpy Author:Charles de Lint
“It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more the better, that it is almost as difficult to wean ourselves from it as from the habit of chewing tobacco to excess, or of smoking the whole time, or of depending for stimulus upon tea or coffee or spirits.” BookWholeLightSpiritEasyDifficultInterestingHabitCoffeeTeaPleasantSmokingExcessStimulusTobaccoChewingInteresting BookChewing Tobacco Author:Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
“Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.” TwoWisdomGovernmentSpiritPoliticsIndividualEconomyDemocracyExtremesInequalityLiberalismExcessConquestAristocracyDespotismDemocracies Have Author:Baron de Montesquieu
“The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.” MindBodyEarthSpiritDivineBearsExcessPortionsDepressingOppressed Author:Horace
“A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.” SpiritCertainAnimalEnemySafetyIllStrikesSpiteExcessCautionDeliberateGood HumorAnimal Spirits Author:William Hazlitt
“The fact is I don't lead a simple enough inner life. I indulge in excesses, bacchanalia of the spirit. Perhaps I identify too much with everything I read and study. Someone like Dostoevsky still shatters me.” StillsEnoughFactsSpiritSimpleStudyToo MuchExcessIndulgeInner LifeIndulge In Book:Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943 Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943