"In point of fact, Western philosophy has never set itself free of Christianity: wherever Christianity did not have a hand in the construction of modern philosophy it served instead as a stumbling block."

-- Jacques Maritain

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“Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.”

Source : Charles Simic (2013). “The Monster Loves His Labyrinth”, p.67, Copper Canyon Press
“This estrogen force field needs to dissipate... Move along. All of you. Now!”
“So let's not pretend that travel is always fun. We don't spend 10 hours lost in the Louvre because we like it, and the view from the top of Machu Picchu probably doesn't make up for the hassle of lost luggage. (More often than not, I need a holiday after my holiday.) We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.”

Source : "Why we travel" by Jonah Lehrer, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2010.
“The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in who it sees as its heroes.”
“I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response.”
“When we [Migos] talk about whatever we're talking about, and you visualise it, that's what we really went through.”
“While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing”
“Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.”

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