"I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!"

-- Charles Dickens

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“But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites.”
“You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger.”
“A manâ€™s best friend is a good wife.”
“Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.”

Source : Jim Crace (2013). “Harvest”, p.20, Pan Macmillan
“The idea of molding men means a lot to me.”
“Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.”

Source : Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”
“Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss....”
“I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.”

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