“Long ago I abandoned my masterpiece a roll of paper thirty yards long which I filled completely with minute handwriting in my dungeon years ago It vanished when the Bastille fell it vanished as everything written everything thought and planned will disappear” YearsLongWrittenMinutesPaperYears AgoFilledDisappearThirtyAbandonedLong AgoYardsMasterpieceDungeonsHandwritingBastille Book:Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman Source: Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman
“I don't think too much about the past when I am actually playing, I prefer to concentrate on the present. The performance of a piece, no matter how long ago or where it was written, is always a new production, something that comes alive in the present. And it doesn't matter if the piece was written two or three hundred years ago if it is alive in us.” IfsThinkingYearsLongTwoMatterPastThreeToo MuchPiecesAliveWrittenHundredYears AgoPerformancesProductionsLong AgoLive In The Present Author:David Finckel
“The Bible was written between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago, and it's filled with the knowledge that people had in that period of time, some of which you and I rejected long ago. The Bible says that women are property, that homosexuals ought to be put to death, that anybody who worships a false God ought to be executed, that a child that talks back to his parents ought to be stoned at the gates of the city. Those ideas are absurd.” PeopleYearsChildrenLongIdeasParentCitiesWrittenOughtPeriodsWorshipYears AgoFilledPropertyAbsurdGatesLong AgoRejectedHomosexualFalse Gods Author:John Shelby Spong
“Long ago I'd said that I am "fascinated by the phantasmagoria of human personality" - this is perhaps even truer now than years ago.” YearsHumansLongSaidPersonalityYears AgoFascinatedLong AgoHuman Personality Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago. . . . Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self.” LoveYearsLongSoulSelfFlowerSelf LoveKingsLoversOceanYears AgoStonesQueensBelovedIslandsLong AgoPalacesCrystalsMystic Author:Carl Jung