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One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.
Loren Eiseley
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Loren Eiseley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1907
Born: September 3
Died: 1977
Died: July 9
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The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain.
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It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.
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Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe itself, the unique, the strange, the unexpected. Numerous observers have testified upon the loneliness of the process.
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Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
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I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.
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Great minds have always seen it. That is why man has survived his journey this long. When we fail to wish any longer to be otherwise than what we are, we will have ceased to evolve. Evolution has to be lived forward. I say this as one who has stood above the bones of much that has vanished, and at midnight has examined his own face.
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A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles. It is possible to refine the sense of time until an old shoe in the bunch grass or a pile of nineteenth century beer bottles in an abandoned mining town tolls in one's head like a hall clock.
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Man no longer dreams over a book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs with him through the pangs of youth and age. Today he is more likely to sit before a screen and dream the mass dream which comes from outside.
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Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.
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You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to end as you planned.
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When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave him birth, will respond.
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I no longer cared about survival...I merely loved.
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Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning.
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Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.
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Without the gift of flowers and the infinite diversity of their fruits, man and bird, if they had continued to exist at all, would be today unrecognizable.
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To have dragons one must have change that is the first principle of dragon lore.
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It is a funny thing what the brain will do with memories and how it will treasure them and finally bring them into odd juxtapositions with other things, as though it wanted to make a design, or get some meaning out of them, whether you want it or not, or even see it.
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Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.
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I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us
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From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.
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