Tao Te Ching
Piranesi
A creative masterpiece of Outsider literature, Piranesi expands imagination and shines a small light of meaningfulness on our daily experience. Most of us may live our lives on the surface of conventionality afraid of anything deeper. Susanna Clarke goes deep in this story and describes pathways through the labyrinths of our modern worlds.
Quotes from Piranesi
“It seemed to me that the wisdom of the ancients could not have simply vanished. Nothing simply vanishes... this energy must be going somewhere. That was when I realized that there must be other places, other worlds. And so I set myself to find them.”
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“Reality was not only capable of taking part in a dialogue — intelligible and articulate — it was also persuadable.”
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“The world was constantly speaking to Ancient Man... When they observed the world, the world observed them back.”
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“They were all enamored with the idea of progress and believed that whatever was new must be superior to what was old. As if merit was a function of chronology!”
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