"Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art."

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Source : Arthur Symons, Roger Holdsworth (2003). “Arthur Symons: Selected Writings”, p.84, Psychology Press

Arthur Symons

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“If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.”
“To get at the truth of your calling, you have to crack open that false self and see what lies within.”
“When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.”

Source : "Q&A: Senator Ron Wyden on NSA Surveillance and Government Transparency". www.rollingstone.com. August 15, 2013.
“Britney Spears has shoulders like a man.”
“Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.”

Source : "'Senator McMahon' Sounds like an Outlandish WWE Story-Line by Jackson Katz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2012.
“I seem to thrive by destroying the last thing I did, in a kind of cartoon Nietzsche way. Emerson says in "Experience" something like "every ultimate fact soon becomes the next in a series." The self feels more real when you are destroying things you've made than when you are paying them homage. That's the good news about being self-destructive. The bad news, I feel I don't need to deliver.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.”
“It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.”

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