"I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue."

-- Vita Sackville-West

#Thinking Quotes #Faithful Quotes #Infidelity Quotes

“There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”
“In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.”
“There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.”
“Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.”

Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.93, Atlantic Books Ltd
“It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some, resemblance is everything and descent of little weight-in some, resemblance seems to go for nothing, and Creation the reigning idea-in some, descent is the key,-in some, sterility an unfailing test, with others it is not worth a farthing. It all comes, I believe, from trying to define the undefinable.”
“The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.”
“there are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls”
“Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.”

Source : Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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