"We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors."

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Source : "On the Water". Short story by Guy de Maupassant, 1888.

Guy de Maupassant

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“At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it is and a perfect faith in humanity as it is to be.”

Source : Lionel Trilling, Leon Wieseltier (2009). “The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays”, p.31, Northwestern University Press
“I don't care," said Seth. "I would have done it. I would have sold my soul for you. You and me...I told you. Something's always going to keep us near each other...even if we aren't together.”

Source : Richelle Mead (2009). “Succubus Heat”, p.412, Random House
“When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.”
“If you take suede leather and put it on a piece of steel, and put moisture on it, it actually sticks.”
“There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.”
“God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope.”
“Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.”
“In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.”

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