"Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a heated furnace, and there remain, living both in soul and body, than to support such a sight. And if the sea were all fire they would cast themselves therein and never leave it, if they were certain of meeting the sin on doing so."

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Source : "The Spiritual Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa".

Catherine of Genoa

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“The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.”
“Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.”
“I always wonder, aside from even my name, what if my parents never split up? What if my mother never died? It swirls in my head all the time.”
“As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.”

Source : "Karel Appel: The complete sculptures, 1936-1990". Book by Karel Appel, 1990.
“History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a page in the daily press without learning the specific time, place, and name of evil. But perhaps the most pervasive evil of all rarely appears in the news. This evil, the waste of human potential, is particularly painful to recognize for it strikes our parents and children, our friends and brothers, ourselves.”
“And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night till old age - to be taken when required, like fish from a private pond.”
“I also started to eat sensibly. The weight just dropped off.”

Source : "Harry Potter's Dudley Dursley is all grown up! Actor Harry Melling shows off weight loss at new movie premiere" by Lara Martin, www.mirror.co.uk. February 19, 2017.
“I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.”

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