"Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light."

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Source : Radclyffe Hall (2005). “The Well of Loneliness”, p.214, Wordsworth Editions

Radclyffe Hall

#Men Quotes #Light Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“The aesthetic dimension of the ideal state comes out in the idea of harmony, which is the classical idea of beauty as "concinnitas" or "unity-in-variety".”

Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.
“It's true. somewhere inside us we are all the ages we have ever been. We're the 3 year old who got bit by the dog. We're the 6 year old our mother lost track of at the mall. We're the 10 year old who get tickled till we wet our pants. We're the 13 year old shy kid with zits. We're the 16 year old no one asked to the prom, and so on. We walk around in the bodies of adults until someone presses the right button and summons up one of those kids.”
“I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives.”
“Oh, bother!,â€ said Pooh, as Piglet came back from the dead.”
“Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.”
“I've been getting really into mixing, and there's kinda like an art to it I think. I feel like I still have a lot of ways to grow. But you can just watch the way that other people blend songs together, and it can be a pretty mind-blowing thing. And you can hear music in a very different way, depending on the way a DJ presents it.”
“The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.”
“However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.”

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