#origin

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But the Australians, what do the Australians do? How do they structure their landscape? For a start they postulate a primal builder, whose work they presume only to interpret: the mythical animal who was active in the “dreamtime,” that is, a primal era, beyond verification, as the name indicates. A time of sleep. The visible landscape is an effect of causes that are to be found in the dreamtime. For example, the snake that dragged itself over this plain creating these undulations, etc., etc. These.. curious Aborigines make sure their eyes are closed while events take place, which allows them to see places as records of events. But what they see is a kind of dream, and they wake into a reverie, since the real story (the snake, not the hills) happened while they were asleep.


César Aira


#australian-aboriginal #dreamtime #dreams

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.


Georges Seurat


#character #depends #drawing #each #only

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.


Chögyam Trungpa


#background #confidence #cultivation #development #enlightenment

كنت سأبقى في نطاق العالم الذي أعرفه، فأرى الأشياء من خلال عيون زملائي في الرحلة، و يتشغل عقلي بمقاومة انطباعاتهم ن فيعجز عن تكوبن فكرة تخصني


Ahdaf Soueif


#originality #love

Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.


Peter D. Mitchell


#colleagues #difficult #especially #find #his

The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain.


Peter D. Mitchell


#cannot #colleagues #critics #either #feel

It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.


Bernard Pivot


#difficult #everyone #original #very

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.


Jane Porter


#brightness #happiness #heart #itself #kindred

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.


Susan Powter


#anything #be original #because #few #few people

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.


Jean Philippe Rameau


#origin #singing #speech #verse