Famous quotes containing the words waking and/or revelation:
“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)
“True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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