"Life is a publicity stunt. A shill. You've been had."

-- Kate Millett

#Life Quotes #Publicity Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.”

Source : Radclyffe Hall (1956). “The well of loneliness”, Anchor
“How shall we define occultism? The word is derived from the Latin occultus, hidden; so that it is the study of the hidden laws of nature. Since all the great laws of nature are in fact working in the invisible world far more than in the visible, occultism involves the acceptance of a much wider view of nature than that which is ordinarily taken. The occultist, then, is a man who studies all the laws of nature that he can reach or of which he can hear, and as a result of his study he identifies himself with these laws and devotes his life to the service of evolution.”
“The things that caused problems for me in school are the same things that help me succeed in the world.”
“I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.”
“Our infinite sadness can only be cured by an infinite love.”
“So I step into the future, as bravely as I'm able, with my heart longing for a time I'll never see again.”

Source : Ekaterina Gordeeva, E. M. Swift (2009). “My Sergei: A Love Story”, p.7, Hachette UK
“She wanted to feel him pound away her fears, a hammer to smash through all her guilt and pain and emptiness.”
“Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.”

Source : Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

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