"Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern, not the structure of conformity which imprisons but the structure which liberates, sets us free to become growing, mature human beings."

-- Madeleine L'Engle

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“There were also the razor marks on her wrists and forearms, half a dozen per arm, not very deep, not very convincing really, just a lame, hapless attempt at hurting herself. There hadn't even been that much blood and nobody at the hospital had been at all surprised. These scars, for some reason, he didn't mind. Maybe they even appealed to him. They showed that she was weak and in need of him.”

Source : Geoff Nicholson (1998). “Bleeding London”, p.62, The Overlook Press
“We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own making. We are born into a disordered world, into a family we did not choose, into circumstances we would have had somewhat improved, and we are even called by a name we did not select. (40)”

Source : SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”
“Where is the safest place when that place / must be someplace other than in the body?”

Source : Claudia Rankine (2014). “Citizen: An American Lyric”, p.124, Macmillan
“The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.”
“What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?”
“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”

Source : "The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, Book 1)". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.
“I was always nervous to play my father's [John Lennon's] songs.”
“Shahidullah Shahid said there is nothing Islamic in Pakistanâ€™s constitution. He clearly canâ€™t read. The truth is there is nothing Islamic in the TTP.”

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