A Quote by John Wyndham
It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.
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Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.
The most important questions a human can ever ask must surely deserve the most convincing answers, not simply the most comforting?
When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.'
Maybe hallucinations are just another reality that we don't see most of the time
Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.
Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this took the form of musical hallucinations, mostly musical memories from her earlier life. The brain needed to stay incessantly active, and if it was not getting its usual stimulation..., it would create its own stimulation in the form of hallucinations.
You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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