"In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart."

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Ambrose Bierce

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“Wrongs have to be redressed by reason, not by force.”

Source : T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.205, Penguin
“Republicans are 'bad people who deserve a two-by-four upside their heads.'”
“Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?”
“Writing is a solitary occupation, and we like it that way.”
“In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.”
“The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the more we will be able to wall off the flood of illusions disseminated by mass culture and the more we will retain sanity in an insane world.”
“Iâ€™ve got to push everything out of mind save the name of Jesus. I say His name over and over again, for as long as fifteen minutes, until I find my soul suspended in what the ancient Celtic Christians called a â€œthin placeâ€â€“a state where the boundary between heaven and earth, divine and human, dissolves. You could say that I use the name of Jesus as my koan.”
“We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights.”

Source : Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Avatar”, p.456, Pan Macmillan

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