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Because a grumpy mood that seems to come out of the blue is so inexplicable, I think we go around looking for something to feel annoyed about, some external circumstance to dislike in order to discharge that energy. Even

I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

His heroes were solitary thinkers and supermen like Newton and Nietzsche.

How many of the great mathematicians have been perverts?" None, was his answer. "Some lived celibate lives, usually on account of economic disabilities, but the majority were happily married. . . . The only mathematician discussed here whose life might offer something of interest to a Freudian is Pascal

M. Comte's philosophy in practice might be compendiously described as Catholicism minus Christianity.

I am aware of the damp souls of housemaidsSprouting despondently at area gates.

Against the Word the unstilled world still whirledAbout the center of the silent Word.

More can be learned about how to write poetry from Dante than from any English poet…. The language of each great English poet is his own language; the language of Dante is the perfection of a common language.

The general point of view may be described as classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo-Catholic in religion.

I'll convert you!Into a stew.A nice little, white little, missionary stew!

If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, the road to heaven is paved with relentless faith.

But Nikki White was a citizen of the world's richest country, the United States of America.

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

his heart ruptured or broke in response to infinite suffering, then the fact that it happened on the cross, not in the Garden, would suggest that the cross may indeed have been the climax of his universal suffering.

A piece of writing is a trap," he said cheerily, "and the best kind. A book, you see, is the only kind of trap that keeps its captive—which is knowledge—alive forever.

It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end.

A liberal is a socialist with a wife and two children.

Tact carries a bunch of curiously-fashioned keys, that open all kinds of doors.

Girls want attention. Women want respect.

Shall we surrender?' he said mildly. 'I think we should. After all we outnumber him only fifteen to one, we have only muskets to oppose his bow, and we are surrounded. Or at least I think we are. How is it that one man can surround fifteen? Please clear up this mystery for me.

The female prophet associated with Yesod is Abigail, who eventually became one of King David's wives. She

if she'd been one of those hexy Dutch instead of a God-fearing Amishwoman, I'm sure she'd have put a spell on me.

ade slipping back into place. "Heavy crowd tonight.

Annie winced. "Ooooh, you know, it's remarks like that that lead people to draw unflattering conclusions about your sanity.