And if you do otherwise you will throw away your time, or certainly greatly prolong your studies. And remember to acquire diligence rather than rapidity. I can t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. Tennessee Williams, Blanche DuBois, A Streetcar Named Desire , sc. 3 Science is spectral analysis.
Art is light synthesis.
One must still have chaoss in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. But internal difference, Where the Meanings, are. The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. . . . I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.