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«I have... had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls. As I unfurl the first scroll, a subscription card to some Gnostic exercise magazine flutters out.»
Author: Colin McEnroe
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«One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army»
«The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
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«If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.»
Author: Orson Welles
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Civilization
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«Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.»
«Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him! / And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died? / Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.»
«I either finish this tour ecstatically happy and want to go on tour everywhere, or I'll end up just going back to my cave for another five years.- Talking about his North American tour in 1974.»
«The sun to me is dark / And silent as the moon, / When she deserts the night / Hid in her vacant, interlunar cave.»
«They see only their own shadows or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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«In the cave of intuitive wisdom I sit, absorbed in the silent trance of the Primal Void. I have obtained my seat in the heavens.»
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