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Well, what happens with the River of Hades in the end? -Not a thing. It's an infernal punishment precisely because nothing happens.

What we call beauty is perhaps the strength of our feeling of resistance to destructibility. Difficulty of reproduction is the yardstick of the degree of beauty.

If it were a question of excuses and consolation, I would have preferred to melt away like smoke.

isn't the mask something required mainly by the victim and the disguise, on the contrary, by the assailant?

Should I make this girl just for this once, tonight, in revenge for the scars, for you, and for my real face?

The mask, that should be the victor, lay stupidly on the table, like an obscene picture that has drained all one's desire;

Whatever the result, it would surely be much better than this extraordinary three-sided relationship—this self-intoxication with jealousy that continued to grow like a cancer.

Dreams, my mother always told me, represend part of our unconsciousness--the place where we store the true parts of our soul, away from the rest of the world. From Breena quoting her mother in Bitter Frost

He was the only one interested in me. Of course he isn't, Steve said. Practically every boy in the school would want a chance to... ow, Maisy! Sorry, my elbow slipped.

Since all premodern state ideology was inseparable from religion, warfare inevitably acquired a sacral element.

Jefferson the deist was accused of being an atheist and even a Muslim.

This rationalized interpretation of religion has resulted in two distinctively modern phenomena: fundamentalism and atheism. The two are related.

Logos cannot assuage our sorrow or evoke our sense of the transcendent, so it cannot convince us that, despite all the rational evidence to the contrary, our lives have meaning and value.

When I heard this I became very sad, but I thought that now I would indeed have to take him with me so that the Virgin herself could enlighten him.

19TH DAY OF OCTOBER, Feast of Saint Frideswide, virgin, though why that should make someone a saint I do not know

in the context of 1881] Don't you want to get married and have babies? Mrs. Bergman used to say that women need- What women need is more exercise, shorter skirts, and their own way once in a while.

There comes a time in every endeavor when one must take fate by the lapels and explain the need for urgency.

Innocent and virtuous, she represented the exact type of female he avoided... God, she was a taking thing, even for an avaricious reformer.

Pray stop your infernal whispering. You sound like a pack of nuns planning a murder.

The pride in intellect, or rather in the supremacy of the mind, is not restricted to those engaged in intellectual pursuits but is a regular occurrence in all neurosis.

I'm being careful with here, Harlow told me, apparently irritated by something I hadn't even had the time to say yet. She was making assumptions about my no-fun-at-all-ness. They were good assumptions.

So the studies don't back me up. There'll always be more studies. We'll change our minds and I'll have been right all along until we change our minds again, send me back to being wrong.

intended as a dig at my father, the enterprise being another of science's excesses, like cloning or whisking up a bunch of genes to make your own animal. Antagonism in my family comes

Yes, it is. I'm leaving the marriage, I'm not leaving you. As long as you're in the house, I'll take care of the house." "Fuck off," said Sylvia.