"Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve."

-- Euripides

#Fate Quotes #Harsh Quotes

“If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.”

Source : Anne Michaels (2009). “Skin Divers”, p.20, McClelland & Stewart
“Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity to support us and the rest of its living systems”

Source : "Is protecting the environment incompatible with social justice?" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2012.
“Reach for the heavens, and hope for the future, and all that will be, not what we are.”
“Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy of alcohol and drugs, through the ecstasy of recreational sex, through the ecstasy of crowds. Church leaders frequently warn against the drugs and the sex, but at least, in America, almost never against the crowds.”
“Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'T is the coquette who provides all the amusements,--suggests the riding-party, plans the picnic, gives and guesses charades, acts them. She is the stirring element amid the heavy congeries of social atoms,--the soul of the house, the salt of the banquet.”
“All the kids in the cast tell me they hated high school, but I had the best time. I guess I was one of the popular kids. I played soccer, I was class presidentâ€”I even dated the homecoming queen.”
“I love the process of being taken from where I am to somewhere else.”

Source : Josephine Jacobsen (1997). “The instant of knowing: lectures, criticism, and occasional prose”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.”

Source : "On Being a Graphic Artist" by M. C. Escher, 1981.

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