"A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested by them. And there is a level on which the mockery of people, even their hatred, is moving, because it is so blind: It is terrible to watch people cling to their captivity and insist on their own destruction."

-- James A. Baldwin

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“For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.”
“I've become more confident as I have got older. I care less what others think.”

Source : "Helen McCrory: 'Most of the attention I get is from younger men'" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2013.
“I don't really mess with Instagram much, but I get why people love it. Because to me, it's better to tell a story through a picture than 140 characters.”
“From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.”

Source : "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.
“Birth, like love, is an energy and a process, happening within a relationship. Both unfold with their own timing, with a uniqueness that can never be anticipated, with a power that can never be controlled, but with an exquisite mystery to be appreciated.”

Source : Elizabeth Noble (1983). “Childbirth with Insight”
“We don’t have to convince an unwilling God to come and refresh us with His presence. He’s for it. But, He cannot be manipulated. But when sincere hearts who know they cannot do His work nor His will without Him, humbly pray, He will answer.”
“Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are here now. ... Everything that is worthwhile in human civilization has not only originated from but has been inspired by dreams, by imagination.”

Source : Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1996). “Footsteps”, Penguin Group USA
“I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use of mathematical symbolism and numbers in order to try and give messages.”

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