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Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

—Robert Southey, 1809

One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

—Gaston Bachelard, 1960

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

—John Locke, 1689

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

—Elias Canetti, 1960

The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.

—Abraham the Jew, c. 1400

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

—Saint Augustine, c. 400

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

—Roald Dahl, 1990

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

—Aristophanes, 423 BC

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

—Robert Wilson, 1991

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

—Robertson Davies, 1985

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939