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Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, demanding tickets. "Pass through," she said when Deborah reached her. "We saw you coming." The wicket gate became a turnstile. Deborah pushed against it and there was no resistance, she was through. "What is it?" she asked. "Am I really here at last? Is this the bottom of the pool?" "It could be," smiled the woman. "There are so many ways. You just happened to choose this one." Other people were pressing to come through. They had no faces, they were only shadows. Deborah stood aside to let them by, and in a moment they had gone, all phantoms. "Why only now, tonight?" asked Deborah. "Why not in the afternoon, when I came to the pool?" "It's a trick," said the woman. "You seize on the moment in time. We were here this afternoon. We're always here. Our life goes on around you, but nobody knows it. The trick's easier by night, that's all." "Am I dreaming, then?" asked Deborah. "No," said the woman, "this isn't a dream. And it isn't death, either. It's the secret world." The secret world... It was something Deborah had always known, and now the pattern was complete. The memory of it, and the relief, were so tremendous that something seemed to burst inside her heart. "Of course..." she said, "of course..." and everything that had ever been fell into place. There was no disharmony. The joy was indescribable, and the surge of feeling, like wings about her in the air, lifted her away from the turnstile and the woman, and she had all knowledge. That was it - the invasion of knowledge. ("The Pool")


Daphne du Maurier


#creativity #death #dream #fantasy #imagination

Hope was never meant to be A future shared alone, As life cannot be won or lost It was never ours to own.


Frederic M. Perrin


#young-adult #young-adult-fantasy #life

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.


Tucker Carlson


#increasingly #open-minded

Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.


Sophocles


#phantoms #pity #life

If the counsel of the peaceniks had been followed, Kuwait would today be the nineteenth province of Iraq. Bosnia would be a trampled and cleansed province of Greater Serbia, Kosovo would have been emptied of most of its inhabitants, and the Taliban would still be in power in Afghanistan. Yet nothing seems to disturb the contented air of moral superiority of those that intone the "peace movement".


Christopher Hitchens


#leftism #noninterventionism #pacifism #peace-movement #iraq

Real? Real depends upon your perspective, Annabelle. People never see life exactly the same way. The world is what you think it is.


Richelle E. Goodrich


#annabelle-fancher #fantasy #life #outlook #perspective

I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually.


Tom Selleck


#another #character #element #feel #i

To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking.


Jon Kabat-Zinn


#letting #reject #struggle #to #want

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.


Seneca


#how #never #nothing #pleasant #reflect

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. Only a few things are really important.


Marie Dressler


#important #life #life