"Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity and the soul - forcing us to define ourselves and our relationship to the world."

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Source : Matthew Scully (2003). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.305, Macmillan

Matthew Scully

#Animal Quotes #Soul Quotes #Guilt Quotes

“I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.”
“Personality is the gland of creativity.”
“What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born. [Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu? Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]”
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
“The novel is rescued life.”

Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “Herself: An Autobiographical Work”, p.434, Open Road Media
“Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed us tried, with such unfortunate results, to arrive at theoretically.”
“If youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule.”
“Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.”

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