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“Optimism is cowardice.”
Source : Oswald Spengler (2016). “Routledge Revivals: Man and Technics (1932): A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life”, p.56, Routledge
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“Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father's active goodness and unrestricted love.”
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“Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.”
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“If he is smart, he will run. He is not.”
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“It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have the eyes to see.”
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“Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.”
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“Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.”
Source : Henry James (2016). “The Daily Henry James: A Year of Quotes from the Work of the Master”, p.172, University of Chicago Press
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“Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.”
