"Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes."

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Source : Thomas De Quincey, Grevel Lindop (1998). “The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: And Other Writings”, p.103, Oxford Paperbacks

Thomas de Quincey

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“I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.”
“Our President has given symbolic support to the National Day of Prayer but I believe that our nation needs an impassioned call to our collective knees.”
“Some days felt longer than other days. Some days felt like two whole days. Unfortunately those days were never weekend days. Our Saturdays and Sundays passed in half the time of a normal workday. In other words, some weeks it felt like we worked ten straight days and had only one day off.”
“The idea of â€˜calling' was fundamentally redefined: no longer was it about being called to serve God by leaving the world; it was now about serving God in the world”
“The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I canâ€™t always tell the difference.”
“Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.18, Wesleyan University Press
“Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.”

Source : "Desire". The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Website, www.lds.org. April 2011.
“A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?”

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