"Do you believe your heart to be, indeed, so hardened, that you can look without emotion on the suffering, to which you would condemn me?"

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Source : Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.802, Delphi Classics

Ann Radcliffe

#Believe Quotes #Heart Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.”
“The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.”
“In the awakened state of Presence, aloneness becomes all-oneness.”
“I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.”
“Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.”
“An nice lady in the back...asked what I thought about how we begin to move forward. I think it is up to each individual, which then moves to your family, which moves to your community. Each person, in their own life, let your life be a light for peace, for justice, for all that is good. Just let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.”
“For most of the universe's life is not all gummy wads and tarty tarts; is a struggle against hardship, unfairness, corruption, abuse, and adversity in all its guises, where even to survive - let alone survive with dignity - is heroic. To soldier through the days in the wake of failure is the courageous act of many.”

Source : Frank Beddor (2006). “The Looking Glass Wars”, Dial Books for Young Readers
“I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.”

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