"The feelings which seek expression in words are mostly egotistical, since they seek to express what flatters our self-love and can show us, as we imagine, in the best light."

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Source : Lorenzo Scupoli (1978). “Unseen Warfare: The Spiritual Combat and Path to Paradise of Lorenzo Scupoli”, p.143, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

Lorenzo Scupoli

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“To save the audience we must fill the stage with murderers, adulterers and madmen; in short, we must fire a salvo of monsters at them. They are our monster which we will temporarily free ourselves from only to face another day.”

Source : "Life As It Is" by Nelson Rodrigues, translated by Alex Ladd, Host Publications, (p. ii), 2009.
“The people I know who suffer from mental illness, sometimes they do connect you to what it is to be really human. There's a vulnerability there, there's something very potent.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I believe that the best measure of whether a nation is going to be successful is whether they are tapping the talents of their women.”
“Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports Â in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.”
“....Only you mattered in that moment. Only you. And I would have done anything to save you. I would have paid any price committed any sin sold my very soul to do it.”

Source : Deanna Raybourn (2015). “The Dark Enquiry”, p.207, MIRA
“I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.”
“Roger Federer is stylish.”
“The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible. Today, if you are looking for a safe job, don't become a dictator.”

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