"But : We're still human. Human because we keep on battling against all these horrors, the horrors caused and not caused by us. We battle not in order to stay alive, that would be too materalistic, for we are body and spirit, but in order to love each other."

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Source : Kathy Acker (1989). “Empire of the Senseless”, p.69, Grove Press

Kathy Acker

#Order Quotes #Battle Quotes #Body Quotes

“I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true Faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God Himself.”

Source : Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton (2000). “Elizabeth Ann Seton: A Woman of Prayer : Meditations, Reflections, Prayers, and Poems Taken from Her Writings”, University Press of Amer
“The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel.”
“Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.”
“As the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe has presciently pointed out, neoliberal corporate globalism threatens to exploit that advantage like never before, and it seems set to turn vast swathes of humanity into "the Negros of a new racism."”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us...”

Source : Mary Oliver (2004). “Why I Wake Early: New Poems”, p.34, Beacon Press
“If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.”
“I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."”
“Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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