"I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream."

-- Anais Nin

#Dream Quotes #Reality Quotes #Analogies Quotes

“Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.”
“We got food stamps. Glad to get the food stamps. Why wouldn't you want to get free money?”
“One of the things I try to do is take seriously some of the forms of American religion that people consider to be shallow and try and figure out why they have such a strong appeal and tease out the theology they actually represent.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.”

Source : John Jay Chapman, Richard Stone (1998). “Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader”, p.21, University of Illinois Press
“I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.”

Source : "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers (Book 6: The Cynics)". Book by Diogenes Laertius, circa 200 AD.
“I'll trust myself, myself shall be my friend.”

Source : c.1589 The Spanish Tragedy, act 3, sc.2.
“Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.”
“As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!”

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