The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream … - Susanne Katherina Langer - Quotesmemo.com

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Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes will take off into the night air and the night winds, sliding past and behind each other, zooming, turning and turning in the redness of the winds, living, never to return.

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Susanne Katherina Langer

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.

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The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

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Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes will take off into the night air and the night winds, sliding past and behind each other, zooming, turning and turning in the redness of the winds, living, never to return.

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