"There are none among us who have not been, even for a moment, cruel to those whom we love most, as if unable, in that moment, to shoulder any longer the magnificent weight and burden, the responsibility, of that love."

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Source : Rick Bass (1998). “The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Rick Bass

#Responsibility Quotes #Weight Quotes #Moments Quotes

“Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.”
“We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of the new." Yesterdays avant-garde experiment is today's chic and tomorrows cliche.”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.418, Vintage
“I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.”
“When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.”
“When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.”
“You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.”
“I always had an interest in the environment... to protect our planet... for the ocean to go on...”
“Now, if anything at all can be known to be wrong, it seems to me to be unshakably certain that it would be wrong to make any sentient being suffer eternally for any offence whatever.”

Source : Antony Flew (1984). “God, freedom, and immortality: a critical analysis”

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