Gustav Meyrink quotes
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“Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.”
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“Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.”
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“I have not let myself be stultified by science, whose highest goal is to furnish a `waiting room', which it would be best to tear down.”
-- Gustav MeyrinkSource : Gustav Meyrink, Mike Mitchell (Translator) (2013). “The Golem”, p.223, SCB Distributors
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“It is the narrow, hidden tracks that lead back to our lost homeland, what contains the solution to the last mysteries is not the ugly scar that life's rasp leaves on us, but the fine, almost invisible writing that is engraved on our body.”
-- Gustav MeyrinkSource : Gustav Meyrink, Mike Mitchell (Translator) (2013). “The Golem”, p.85, SCB Distributors
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“Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.”
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Source : Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.48
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“Speaking of sleeping bags, has anything ever had a less creative name?”
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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