"I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them."

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Source : Kathleen Norris (1997). “The Cloister Walk”, p.52, Penguin

Kathleen Norris

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“Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny ...”

Source : Charlotte CHARKE (1826). “A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, youngest daughter of Colley Cibber ... Written by herself. With a portrait”
“Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.”
“Words are an invitation to life, a request to bring energy into form. Choose your words carefully.”
“You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.”
“A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.”

Source : Machado de Assis, Gregory Rabassa (1998). “The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: A Novel”, p.185, Oxford University Press, USA
“A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.”
“The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.”

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