"When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand."

-- C. S. Lewis

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“A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.”

Source : Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange”, p.62
“But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked.”
“It is beyond doubt that the chief motive of Vegetarianism is the humane one. Questions of hygiene and of economy both play their part, and an important part, in a full discussion of food reform; but the feeling which underlies and animates the whole movement is the instinctive horror of butchery, especially the butchery of the more highly organized animals, so human, so near akin to man.”

Source : "The Humanities of Diet". Book by Henry Stephens Salt, 1897.
“Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It did not know because it did not care. The half that was on top cared little for the struggles, and less for the fate, of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat.”

Source : Jacob August Riis (1914). “How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York”
“For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.”
“If you are watching fanatically over the morality of your children you may yourself be not completely in order.”

Source : Janusz Korczak (1967). “Selected works of Janusz Korczak”
“I actually bedazzled when I was younger. I totally did that to my jeans.”
“I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.”

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