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She indulged his long-winded Tolstoy bashing (he saw Tolstoy, "in no way equal to Dostoevsky," as a kind of highbrow Margaret Mitchell who had helped prepare the way for socialist realism)

The other day I came across a book which illustrates in a rather droll way the extent to which Northern European women have taken it for granted that this peculiar North European form of the subjection of women since the Reformation was characteristic of the whole past of Europe. It was a little essay by an English writer, Virginia Woolf—I confess that it is all I have read of hers,1 but she is said to have a great reputation as a novelist.

I get the news I need on the weather report And I have nothing to do today but smile

Three times during our talk the militant said he wanted to martyr himself against the West, making Kadyr nervous he was about to blow himself up in our van.

to Camulodunum and told me the story. The others were not

diagonally polarized photons are in a quantum quandary when confronted by a vertical Polaroid filter.

half of them at random will be blocked, and half will pass through, and those that do pass through will be reoriented with a vertical polarization.

went live on the air in Burbank at 11:30 p.m. Pacific Time, it was 2:30

The monologue is her form of revenge. FLAUBERT

The fact is that a true human privilege is based upon the anatomical privilege only in virtue of the total situation. Psychoanalysis can establish its truths only in the historical context.

which we welcomed precisely because it happened to suit our convenience.

But I know my only defense is to answer, "I think it because it is true," thereby eliminating my subjectivity;

Not only do we assert that the existentialist doctrine permits the elaboration of an ethics, but it even appears to us as the only philosophy in which an ethics has its place.

Your little face was so sweet, yesterday, when you said 'Oh you looked at me, you looked at me.

Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right to the soul.

Love for our neighbor, being made of creative attention, is analogous to genius.

God mercifully prevented me from reading the mystics, so that it would be evident to me that I had not fabricated this absolutely unexpected contact.

A society like the Church, which claims to be divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains than on account of the evil which sullies it.

there are no new heresies, it seems, only old ones masquerading as new.

And, with a disregard for other things, he cherished and experienced That blessed communion with God about which he wrote.

If that woman is on the side of the angels, then I have no choice; I must be on the side of the devil.

Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics. I've heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I've never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis!

What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?

Author sees the congested idealism of the generally discontent as reservoir that will support centralized power even while disagreeing with many specific provisions.