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fascination that made Vatican Council II appeal to Conor as catnip

Tis an ill wind that blows no minds

If God had been a Liberal there wouldn't have been Ten Commandments, there would have been Ten Suggestions.

Unfortunately Marx said that the important thing is not to understand the world but to change it. Poor man, he got it the wrong way round. The important thing is not to change the world too much until you understand it.

In their response to nihilism both Nietzsche and Heidegger rely on what is perhaps the central tenet of fascism in all its forms: the idea that particular human ecologies are the ultimate source of meaning.

Jones's crime was "lithobolia"—hurling stones supernaturally.

She reached the door and added, 'Myfanwy says you drink too much rum. I think she was right.' 'It's my aftershave.' 'Well, then, you drink too much aftershave.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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regret is an underestimated emotion that can eat away at you just as much as jealousy or anger.

I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.

I think it was my saliva that unlocked the desire in you, Mads.

little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

The esoteric system is all based upon the ultimate motive. Ultimate motive is the service of truth itself, a complete dedication to the service of the realities of existence.

only poetry could best fit into the vast emptiness created by men.

A work of encyclopedic scope, The Laws of Manu (in Sanskrit, the M?navadharma??stra or Manusm?ti, and informally known as Manu) 5 consists of 2,685 verses

Els monopolis ideològics sempre parlen de llibertat

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.

Writing plays the role of ritual when ritual is effective and manages to give those participating or attending the feeling that it reopens time.

despite the wounds from which he still suffers, the author of Reveries displays a remarkable serenity here; it is the calm after the storm, the evening glow, the feeling perhaps that despite everything, something was accomplished.

Over the course of time, their successive readings will question and enrich it. Thus the work will no longer belong to the author; he will be dispossessed of it.

the long years with no more shared adventures, in which age makes itself felt more heavily and in which, without the author's romantic ingenuity, forgetfulness might have consumed everything, or nearly so.