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• Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught me to talk to myself. In that garden I learnedto send myself off. Later there were no gardens.

  Octavio Paz

  Wall, Garden, Clouds

  Octavio Paz (1979). “A Draft of Shadows, and Other Poems”, p.35, New Directions Publishing

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• Both Proust and Joyce record the ways in which human perspectives can be transformed. In Portrait, Stephen Dedalus is constantly undergoing epiphanies, but their effects are transitory: the new synthetic complex quickly falls apart. Proust's characters, by contrast, often achieve lasting changes of perspective.

  Philip Kitcher

  Fall, Character, Lasting Change

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• [On Archimedes mathematical results:] It is not possible to find in all geometry more difficult and intricate questions, or more simple and lucid explanation... No investigation of yours would succeed in attaining the proof, and yet, once seen you immediately believe you would have discovered it.

  Proclus

  Believe, Simple, Discovery

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• the feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and dreams and deer antlers--all of which we might miss without taking time and space in Deep Being.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Dream, Real, Journey

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• The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Discovery, Weapons, Facts

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet's epiphanies.

  Barbara Hurd

  Nature, Adventure, Space

  Barbara Hurd (2005). “Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You cultivate the subconscious by meditation, by sitting in silence and by not trying to control your thoughts. Then go someplace where you haven't been before, or go for a walk, a run, and look for signs of grace-an epiphany, something that comes to you.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Running, Silence, Meditation

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• I had at some point the epiphany that if I wanted to be a writer, maybe I should stop thinking about writing, or stop writing about writing, and actually write.

  Matt Fraction

  Writing, Thinking, Comic Book

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• My whole life had been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that lets you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first [compost] heap.

  Bette Midler

  Waiting, Firsts, Kind

  "Singing the Praises of Composting" by Jodi Wilgoren, articles.latimes.com. May 8, 1996.

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• My second epiphany came as an intern at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The man I worked for was consumed with what was going on in Bosnia. And the more I knew [about it] the more saddened I was. There were these images of emaciated men behind barbed wire.... It was like, I've got to find a way to do something.

  Samantha Power

  Men, Wire, Carnegie

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• I just had a epiphany, I need to go to Tiffany's

  Nicki Minaj

  Needs, Tiffany's, Materialistic

  Song: 5 Star Chick

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• The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Magic, Errands, Mingling

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• The second book, which was probably more from a professional standpoint - when I read Junot Díaz's Drown, I was like, Oh my god, you can write these stories and people will actually read them beyond your own little community. This guy's book is blowing up and it seems like [he's writing about] the neighborhood that I grew up in. That was a big deal. I read that in graduate school, so that's when I was really taking writing seriously, but I didn't know you could do it. I didn't know you can actually be an author. It was a weird epiphany.

  Matt de la Pena

  Book, Writing, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The rainbow is such a remarkable phenomenon of nature, and its cause has been so meticulously sought after by inquiring minds throughout the ages, that I could not choose a more appropriate subject for demonstrating how, with the method I am using, we can arrive at knowledge not possessed at all by those whose writings are available to us.

  Rene Descartes

  Writing, Discovery, Rainbow

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• Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.

  Chuck Close

  Art, Motivation, Waiting

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• I think a lot of people have unreasonable expectations because they never stop to consider what life actually has to offer them. They're always looking for some great epiphany from the skies. They never stop to consider the fact which human beings find hardest to recognize: "Maybe I'm not worthy of an epiphany.

  Robertson Davies

  Thinking, Sky, People

  Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.160, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Sex is the divine in its most available epiphany.

  Huston Smith

  Sex, Divine, Available

  "The World's Religions". Book by Huston Smith, 1991.

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• The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

  Dennis Lehane

  Neat And Tidy, Connections, Doe

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• I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.

  Chrisette Michele

  Writing, Thinking, Thinker

  "Chrisette Michele shocked at No. 1 standing". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2009.

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• No matter where we're born, which countries we're raised in, what cultures we come from, there are some universal experiences we all have as children. We all kind of start the same. We want the love of our parents, companionship, friends, we want to have fun, to play, and we're all hurt the first time we learn that the world is far from perfect place - it's the start of a series of epiphanies and realizations that is what growing up is all about.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Country, Hurt, Growing Up

  Interview with James Mustich, www.csmonitor.com. November 24, 2008.

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• Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Believe, Writing, Discovery

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition”, p.1177, ShandonPress

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• And I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed become profoundly more intriguing as a cultural artifact itself. What we've experienced is an inversion of consumption, one in which we've come to prefer the acts of acquisition over that which we are acquiring, the bottles over the wine.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Real, Wine, Thinking

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• I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours - which can be good or bad but also can lead to unexpected epiphanies or experiences that wouldn't be the same at any other time of day.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Brain, Mind, Doe

  "Magic Moments in Life" by Erin Morgenstern, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany.

  Atul Gawande

  Acceptance, Arriving, Mortality

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• I'm suspicious of epiphanies, because they so rarely last.

  Tom Barbash

  Lasts, Suspicious

  Source: therumpus.net

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