"The delight we experience when we allow ourselves to respond to a fairy tale, the enchantment we feel, comes not from the psychological meaning of the tale (although this contributes to it) but from its literary qualities-the tale itself as a work of art,"

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Source : Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales”, Vintage

Bruno Bettelheim

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“They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.”
“You wonder why we're having shootings and killings here in 2017? Because we've asked for it. We've taken prayer out of school.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“jealousy is indeed the shadow of love.”

Source : Ayala Malakh-Pines (1992). “Romantic Jealousy: Causes, Symptoms, Cures”, p.17, Psychology Press
“Rebus was eating breakfast in the canteen and wishing there was more caffeine in the coffee, or more coffee in the coffee come to that.”
“There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being.”
“In general, I wait to be approached. I want to be the one who's hunted, I want to be the one who people take interest in.”
“If you hung him for being a good singer, you'd be hanging an innocent man!”
“There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case.”

Source : "The “Spirit of And”: Part 2" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2010.

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