"The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation."

-- Anais Nin

#Pain Quotes #Violence Quotes #Mystery Quotes

“Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.”

Source : David Ruggles (1834). “The "extinguisher" Extinguished!: Or, David M. Reese, M.D. "used Up."”, p.13
“A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him.”
“Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.”

Source : Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.44, Atlantic Books Ltd
“When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.”
“The only music I don't like is bad music.”
“I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world”

Source : Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books
“One of the great things about movies is that it's just that short period of time. It's a bubble. The last thing you want to know is that Elizabeth and Darcy had a fight over how to treat the servants!”
“We are not saved by good deeds; we are saved for good deeds. Jesus transforms us to transform others.”

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