"Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms."

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Source : Francis Henry Cripps-Day, Walter de Henley, Jacques Bellot, Robert Grosseteste (1931). “The manor farm”

Robert Grosseteste

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“If there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it. Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us awake at night, and watching others forget us sooner than we'd want to be forgotten is no better. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste! (p. 225)”

Source : "Call me by your name". Book by André Aciman, January 23, 2007.
“Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.”
“Blow jobs are okay, but kissing clients is still a taboo.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The true religion, it is said, is service to mankind; but this service seems to take the form of securing for him an unconditional victory over nature. Now this attitude is impious, for, as has been noted, it violates the belief that creation or nature is fundamentally good, that the ultimate reason for its laws is a mystery, and that acts of defiance such as are daily celebrated by the newspapers are subversive of cosmos.”
“Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.”
“Life begins when we decide it's going to begin for us.”
“A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.”

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