"Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive."

-- Camille Paglia

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“Obviously, therefore, we must be able to transcribe what is in us into our mental and objective consciousness, by establishing a relationship between the life in us and observation of that life in Nature. This we find supremely well expressed by the ancient Egyptians. It is a knowledge of magic, pure and sane, which can lead rapidly toward the spiritual goal of our lives, owing to the fact that we can evoke, by means of the sympathy of analogues in our surroundings, the consciousness of the heart latent in us.”
“Music is not just my passion it's my companion.”
“Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.”
“Sexy doesn't have to come with the price tag of being dumb.”
“If I do talk politics it's very surface, it's not in-depth.”
“The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.”
“I need somebody with staying power who will make me go weak in the knees.”
“Sometimes you don't get but one mistake, if the one you pick is bad enough.”

Source : Madison Smartt Bell (1991). “Barking Man and Other Stories”, Penguin Group USA

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