"We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy."

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Source : Sarah Waters (2002). “Fingersmith”, p.447, Penguin

Sarah Waters

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“The playful search for beauty.”

Source : Eva Zeisel, Margaret Carney (1999). “Lost Molds and Found Dinnerware: Rediscovering Eva Zeisel's Hallcraft : New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, New York : February 11, 1999-September 9, 1999”
“I think I'm a bit in love with these girls. They make me feel giddy. Like I haven't a care in the world. Like I'm fearless. Like I used to be.”
“Probably the most important piece of advice that I've ever gotten is to develop your mind. I left school very young and I always regretted it.”

Source : Interview magazine, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.
“The stupendous truth of the existence of a Heavenly Mother, as well as a Heavenly Father, became established facts in Mormon Theology.”
“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”
“Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. What mischief have we done under the belief of false facts and false theories! We have assisted in multiplying diseases; we have done more; we have increased their mortality. ... I am pursuing Truth, and am indifferent whither I am led, if she is my only leader.”
“Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.”

Source : Ernest Becker (1985). “Escape from Evil”, Free Press
“Ivan Lendl is a robot, a solitary, mechanical man who lives with his dogs behind towering walls at his estate in Connecticut. A man who so badly wants to have a more human image that he's having surgery to remove the bolts from his neck.”

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