"Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them."

-- Alexander Pope

#Women Quotes #Riddle Quotes #Please Quotes

“Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.”
“Wolves ate even mighty hunters, for there was no honor or code among predators, and everyone's guts steam the same way when torn open on a cold night.”

Source : Warren Ellis (2013). “Gun Machine”, p.192, Hachette UK
“In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.”

Source : Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”
“As a journalist, I never isolated myself. I was a journalist at a daily newspaper and every day I went out on the street. Every day I had contact with people. I interviewed the most important writers of the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first century, from Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras, and Marguerite Yourcenar to Christa Wolf.”
“A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.”
“Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has anything of a heart and who is not wretchedly and hopelessly blasÃ© feels his love increased by his happiness, and very often the best way to retain a lover ready to leave is to give one's self up to him without reserve.”
“And Christ was born into the world as the literal Son of this Holy Being; he was born in the same personal, real, and literal sense that any mortal son is born to a mortal father. There is nothing figurative about his paternity; he was begotten, conceived and born in the normal and natural course of events, for he is the Son of God, and that designation means what it says.”
“Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.”

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