"I found earthquakes, even when I was in them, deeply satisfying, abruptly revealed evidence of the scheme in action. That the schemes could destroy the works of man might be a personal regret but remained, in the larger picture I had come to recognize, a matter of abiding indifference. No eye was on the sparrow. No eye was watching me."

-- Joan Didion

#Regret Quotes #Eye Quotes #Men Quotes

“God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.”
“Art is the signature of civilizations.”

Source : "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women". Book by Rosalie Maggio, 1992.
“Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.”
“I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.”
“If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.”
“Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.”

Source : Peter Wilson (2002). “Absolutism in Central Europe”, p.13, Routledge
“Why do some people fall out of activity . . . for the same reason that they fall out of bed . . . they are not far enough in it.”
“Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into our Europe. Enthusiasts have purveyed it, careerists have pretended to accept it, imbeciles have believed it.”

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