"Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it."

-- Karl Kraus

#Fleeing Quotes #Satire Quotes #Arise Quotes

“The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.”

Source : Laurence Gonzales (2017). “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why”, p.109, W. W. Norton & Company
“It was so weird, because usually I was totally nervous talking to guys. But Eli was different. He made me want to say more, not less. Which was maybe not a good thing.”
“The love that moves the sun and the other stars.”
“Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.”

Source : Eduard Hanslick (1957). “Vom Musikalisch-Schönen”, Bobbs-Merrill Company
“His masculinity was only too apparent”
“I thought if I was going to live a life in this land I was accidentally born on, I must people it; I must have a history. . .. I'm looking for these people inside me, wherever they may be; that is my form of research.”
“My aim is to advocate that we make this mental switch in respect of our attitudes and practices towards a very large group of beings: members of species other than our own - or, as we popularly though misleadingly call them, animals. In other words, I am urging that we extend to other species the basic principle of equality that most of us recognize should be extended to all members of our own species.”
“Maybe love can kill better than hate.”

Source : maia wojciechowska (1968). “a single light”

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