"There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor."

-- St. Catherine of Siena

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“It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.”
“The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.”
“It is through an "intimate cessation of all intellectual operations" that the mind is laid bare. If nor, discourse maintains it in its little complacency. ... The difference between inner experience and philosophy resides principally in this: that in experience, ... what counts is no longer the statement of wind, but the wind.”
“It never leaves, not with someone we love. Their presence burns too vivid in our memories. Happen that is as it should be, for otherwise we would too easy forget.”
“As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.”
“Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and itâ€™s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself.”

Source : Rebecca Mead (2014). “My Life in Middlemarch”, p.24, Broadway Books
“If you don't have the background awareness of oneness, duality becomes real.”
“You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule.”

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