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Anne Bronte

"I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be written for both men and women to read, and I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man."

Source : "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". Book by Anne Bronte (under the pseudonym "Acton Bell"), Preface to the 2nd edition, July 22, 1848.

Anne Bronte

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“In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the sole exception of specialists in the field, virtually everyone senses that anything which offers less than this passion play remains philosophically trivial. Cultural anthropologists suggest the appealing term 'deep play' for the comprehensively absorbing preoccupations of human beings. From the perspective of a theory of the practising life we would add: the deep plays are those which are moved by the heights.”

Source : Peter Sloterdijk (2014). “You Must Change Your Life”, p.24, John Wiley & Sons
“Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with the Positivists.”

Source : Mortimer Collins, F. Percy Cotton (1886). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Mortimer Collins”
“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”
“A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow.”
“We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer's thought that help us to do so.”
“Magic is the only way to describe it, climbing pitch after pitch of the most perfect, beautifully sculpted granite in the world.”
“One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has fallen while adhering to the path of righteousness.”
“Your desire to withdraw from everything when Allah has involved you in the world of means is a hidden appetite. Your desire for involvement with the world of means when Allah has withdrawn you from it is a fall from high aspiration.”

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