"His was not the hatred that arises suddenly like a storm and as suddenly abates. It was, once the initial shock of anger and pain was over, a calculated thing that grew in a bloodless way."

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Source : Mervyn Peake (1995). “The Gormenghast Novels”, Overlook Books

Mervyn Peake

#Pain Quotes #Hatred Quotes #Storm Quotes

“Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.”
“Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.”
“The most meaningless term in the English language is 'I take full responsibility.' When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.”

Source : "Goldberg: The media is slobbering over Hillary Clinton". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. January 25, 2013.
“Words are like gems to me... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye... that's what names are like for me.”
“Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.”

Source : Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “Creation Myths: Revised Edition”, p.245, Shambhala Publications
“Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film.”
“I don't think there's anywhere to draw the line sexually.”
“If I am right in saying that thought is the ultimate origin or source, it follows that if we don't do anything about thought, we won't get anywhere. We may momentarily relieve the population problem, the ecological problem, and so on, but they will come back in another way.”

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