"To whatever degree he may have desacralized the world, the man who has made his choice in favor of a profane life never succeeds in completely doing away with religious behavior."

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Source : Mircea Eliade (1959). “The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Mircea Eliade

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“Up came the sun, and drank the dew.”

Source : Emily Carr (2009). “The House of All Sorts”, p.32, D & M Publishers
“My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.”

Source : Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”
“We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.”

Source : "AUTHOR INTERVIEW -- Life and Love in the Mexican Revolution / `Lovesick' author puts a passionate woman in the center of the conflict" by Alix Madrigal, www.sfgate.com. May 4, 1997.
“When the bandwagon presents itself, you have to jump onto it.”
“Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.”
“We try to make the name longer and longer every year. First, it was 'Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular.' Then it was 'It's a Very Larry Christmas.' Now it's 'Larry the Cable Guy's Hula-palooza Christmas Luau.' I'll tell you what it is: It's funny. That's what it is. Who cares what the name of it is? It is a funny special.”
“Oi’m always noble, sir; it’s in my blood. ’As been ever since Oi ate that knight a few years back. Why?”
“I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry”

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