"Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary."

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Source : Augusta Jane Evans (1859). “Beulah”, p.140

Augusta Jane Evans

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“I've always drawn, for example, and I did consider when I was younger, it was either do I become an actor or do I become an animator cartoonist at that point. Do I work at Disneyworld or something and do animated cells or something?”

Source : "David Hornsby Talks Unsupervised Season 1". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 19, 2012.
“If exposure of a nude body is thought to incite relations between the sexes, well, what of it. We want a large population anyway.”

Source : Graham Howe, Paul Outerbridge, Jacqueline Markham (1980). “Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs”
“In this filthy despicable world someone suddenly reached out and held on to me. My life in my darkest moment, at the moment of all moments. The one person that reached out to me, was you Yoon Jae In”
“Through everything I have passed but nowhere I have been.”
“To me it's a mystery that you can show the horrific things in the movies, but not some sexual stuff which everyone does.”
“I never thought I was doing anyone a favour by bringing children into the world. With people as cruel to each other as they are, it's a terrible proposition. The best of lives are sad and tragic. The best of them. My general conclusion is that it's not a nice thing to do. The world doesn't need it. The kid doesn't need it.”
“Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and itâ€™s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself.”

Source : Rebecca Mead (2014). “My Life in Middlemarch”, p.24, Broadway Books
“Even those who have desired to work out a completely positive philosophy have been philosophers only to the extent that, at the same time, they have refused the right to install themselves in absolute knowledge. They taught not this knowledge, but its becoming in us, not the absolute but, at most, our absolute relation to it, as Kierkegaard said. What makes a philosopher is the movement which leads back without ceasing from knowledge to ignorance, from ignorance to knowledge, and a kind of rest in this movement.”

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