Memories are the icons of time lost.
Mircea Eliade in The Novel of the Nearsighted Adolescent (1928)
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Light does not come from light, but from darkness.
Mircea Eliade in Isabel and the Devil's Waters
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It is preferable to love a genius than to love the masterpieces of a mediocre soul.
Mircea Eliade in Isabel and the Devil's Waters
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Nothing lasts within the heart. Even the most certified conviction can be annulled by a single gesture.
Mircea Eliade in Maitreyi
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Whereas "false stories" can be told anywhere and at any time, myths must not be recited except during a period of sacred time.
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In love, no certainty is ultimate... That elementary thing - the feeling that you are loved - must be certified again and again, because one doubt, one mistake razes everything to madness and ecstasy.
Mircea Eliade in Wedding in the Sky
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In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.
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For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic sacrality.
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The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred. The history of religions can play an extremely important role in the crisis we are living through. The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.
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If man completely forgets that there is death, that there is an end to it all, we risk becoming monkeys again. The explanation is simple,the active man, the creative man, is especially excited by the idea that one day it will all be over, that there will be an end, a final rest. Be overly aware of the existence of this end and you'll get from people the most extraordinary efforts. Whomever knows this constantly is capable of raising mountains, is capable of the wildest liberties, the most courageous acts.
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