"Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage them. For instance, men often faint at the sight of their own blood, to which they are not accustomed. For this reason you should never stand behind one in the line at the Red Cross donor clinic."

-- Margaret Atwood

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“There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.”
“I'm a lucky guy. No question.”
“Theology is ignorance with wings.”
“God is not all that exists. God is all that does not exist.”

Source : Remy de Gourmont (1920). “Philosophic Nights in Paris”
“Joy is the response of a lover receiving what he loves. This is the joy we feel when skiing powderâ€¦ This overflowing gratitude is what produces the absolutely stupid, silly grins that we always flash at one another at the bottom of a powder run. We all agree that we never see these grins anywhere else in life.”
“The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose”
“I was bullied badly as a kid, but I could always change schools. I could always go home. Now you can't, because of cyberbullying. When bullying follows you home, and there's no escape and no end, to me, that's horror. And to so many girls, that's just life.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.”

Source : W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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