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I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

O Sorrow, wilt Thou live with meNo casual mistress, but a wife.

Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breathPreluded those melodious bursts that fillThe spacious times of great ElizabethWith sounds that echo still.

I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.

"Tirra lirra," by the riverSang Sir Lancelot.

It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you.

The knowing consciousness is a form of the social consciousness, and should not therefore be viewed in isolation from psychology and human history.

There's this guy called Joshua and he knows all about me. I hope he writes my biography, and puts spaceships in it

and braying multitudes of wild asses. The

The situation called for a courage and calmness of reasoning that neither of us could compass, and I have never before seen so clearly conscious of two persons in me-the one that explained everything, and the other that laughed at such foolish explanations, yet was horribly afraid.

The reflection that this sudden intimacy was unnatural, he rejected, for many conversations, for many conversations were really gathered into one.

The studies that had fascinated his mind in earlier youth returned with the power that had subdued his mind in boyhood.

Like many another materialist, that is, he lied cleverly on the basis of insufficient knowledge, because the knowledge supplied seemed to his own particular intelligence inadmissible. ("The Wendigo")

He gave it the benefit of the doubt; he was Scotch. ("The Wendigo")

You have a face that suits a woman For her soul's screen-- The sort of beauty that's called human In hell, Faustine.

God has some areas where he likes to be supplicated in, and the prayer of the supplicator is accepted (in those areas); the sanctuary of Husayn (a.s.) is one of these.

For the Devil, the presence of learned one is by far more painful than a thousand worshipers.

This formulation is regarded by the IHRA as a 'non-legally binding' working definition.

It is often argued that the British left is the main perpetrator of this form of antisemitism.

the proliferation of schemas of racial classification was one reason for the demise of 'scientific racism'.

The idea that Jews were a distinct race was given currency by Nazi racial science. But before that, there was little consensus that Jews were a distinct race.

She was living in a time when historically it was permissible to smile like that above the face of someone who had died a violent death.