"The habit of the religious way of thinking has biased our mind so grievously that we are - terrified at ourselves in our nakedness and naturalness; it has degraded us so that we deem ourselves depraved by nature, born devils."

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Source : Max Stirner, James J. Martin, Steven T. Byington (2005). “The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority”, p.162, Courier Corporation

Max Stirner

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“I think it was coach Lombardi that said, 'Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it.' And that's so true.”
“For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.”

Source : FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”
“Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.”
“Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.”
“To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from May 09, 2016
“I love African food, I love Italian food, but I rarely eat Italian out because it's so easy to make at home. On the other hand, unless you have specialized equipment, Chinese food is really tough because you literally can't get the pan hot enough.”
“Liberty can change habits.”
“How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected.”

Source : Margaret Drabble (2013). “The Middle Ground”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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