29.

“It is wrong, then, to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences … but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life of a dimension of beauty.” - Milan Kundera




Photo is "Halls of Blind" - from Haliestra.

28.

“How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.” - Toni Morrison




Photo is "Dandelion" - from Caroffspring.

27.

"When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them down." - Carl Sandburg




Photo is "Abandoned" - from Igor Laptev.

26.

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." - Bertrand Russell




Photo is "Abandoned" - from Sadist-Oldman.

25.

"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them." - William Hazlitt




Photo is "Hung Out To Dry" - from The Shadow 330.

24.

"And every occasion when a mask was torn off, an ideal broken, was preceded by this hateful vacancy and stillness, this deathly constriction and loneliness and unrelatedness, this waste and empty hell of lovelessness and despair, such as I had now." - Hermann Hesse




Photo is "Loneless at Road" - from Viand.

23.

"It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do." - Arundhati Roy




Photo is "The Universe Dreams" - from Tangled Seaweed.