"The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways."

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Source : "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 209, 1929.

John Cowper Powys

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“The woman who needs to create works of art is born with a kind of psychic tension in her which drives her unmercifully to find a way to balance, to make herself whole. Every human being has this need: in the artist it is mandatory. Unable to fulfill it, he goes mad. But when the artist is a woman she fulfills it at the expense of herself as a woman.”
“The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character has been gained, or that his (or her) knowledge of life has been deepened, or that pity, love or sympathy for a human being is awakened.”
“The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.”
“Cruelty and fear shake hands together.”
“The speculator is not an investor.”
“At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.”
“I think that Rodney Stark studies of new religious movements in the modern world give us some insights into the kinds of questions that we can ask about early Christianity.”

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“A lot of my sketches came from thoughts, and I always just wanted to act them out.”

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