The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday ...purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At one of the later performances you asked why they called it a "miracle," Since nothing ever happened. That, of course, was ...the miracle But you wanted to know why so much action took on so much life And still managed to remain itself, aloof, smiling and courteous.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And you could have a new automobile Ping pong set and garage, but the thief... Stole everything like a miracle. In his book there was a picture of treason only And in the garden, cries and colors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mi...nd; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhym...e, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women... have all the qualities--courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning--whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and n...ew to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They can never have known old monks, wise, shrewd, unerring in judgment, and yet aglow with passionate insight, so very tender in ...their humanity. What miracle enables these semi-lunatics, these prisoners of their own dreams, these sleepwalkers, apparently to enter more deeply each day into the pain of others? An odd sort of dream, an unusual opiate which, far from turning him back into himself and isolating him from his fellows, unites the individual with mankind in the spirit of universal charity!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean- tide, o...n which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb, for we have no word to speak about it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »