#ma

May books spread the world over! ↗

— Yann Martel

#may #over #spread #world

Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect. ↗

— Yann Martel

#dint #duh #effect #emotions #ends

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction. ↗

— Yann Martel

#fiction #how #imagination #interpret #interpretation

Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that. ↗

— Yann Martel

#describing #good #image #mind #reader

A selfish man is a thief. ↗

— Jose Marti

#man #selfish #selfish man #thief

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy. ↗

— Jose Marti

#every man #honest #hypocrisy #liberty #man

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#great #great ideas #ideas #occupied #performs

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them. ↗

— Jose Marti

#despite #down #fair #hills #hinder

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots. ↗

— Jose Marti

#go #goes #man #more #radical

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. ↗

— Jose Marti

#contribute #created #evil #free #human