"The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows."

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Source : Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ruth L. C. Simms (2003). “The invention of Morel”, New York Review of Books

Adolfo Bioy Casares

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“Whenever government assumed responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of citizens, the costs of government rise beyond the point where it is politically expedient to cover them by direct tax levies.”
“If a guy won't commit, he's a player.”

Source : "The Guy Advice Guru". www.seventeen.com. September 6, 2006.
“For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor with any desire for repentance, is to deny the Christian religion.”
“It's never been true, not anywhere at anytime, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale.”
“Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.”

Source : Fay Weldon (2014). “Wicked Women”, p.246, Head of Zeus
“I fear theology is--in the words attributed to William Temple--"still in its infancy" when it comes to animals.”
“There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.”
“Does the sailor then live in exultation of having conquered the waves, or is he humbled by the magnanimity of the ocean? Does the climber believe that he conquered the mountain, or does he dissolve inwardly and face again and again all the times when the mountain was kind to him who was not even a little rag doll in the clutches of a giant? The craving is to merge, to become One with the mountain, the sea, the forest and the universe.”

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