"Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world."

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Source : Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.15, Macmillan

Miguel Syjuco

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“The soul is the principle of life, and it's also something much closer to our own awareness and consciousness of our existence because fundamentally for Plotinus what we are is souls, we're not intellects.”

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“The preppy look has gone global- every corner of the world interprets it in a different way.”
“There's a lot of rules and laws that I follow that our country has set up in the universities. So I definitely follow those. But, I can still be who I am. Still say where my faith, my trust, my inspiration comes from. We still have this freedom of speech on that side of that! So there are some conflicting situations there. But at the same time, it still goes back to my faith and who I am in Jesus Christ and not who I am - Mike MacIntyre - but who I am in Jesus Christ.”
“It is a well known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless in the end game. One of the principal requisites of good chess is the ability to treat both the middle and end game equally well.”
“It is the grand endeavor of the gospel to communicate God to men.”
“What I and other commentators do is attempt to move the public opinion. We try to change minds.”
“Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage.”

Source : Henry Merritt Wriston (1943). “Challenge to freedom”
“I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.”

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