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When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

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Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.
One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.
Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny…
The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would…
Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the…
I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.
That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.
It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.
The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.
Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and…
To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only…
Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.

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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. — Simone de Beauvoir
A talkative soul lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
Trying to force things only disturbs your goals. Forcing will not help. Everything happens in its right time. — Judith Orloff
Art disturbs, science reassures. — Georges Braque
Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we… — John Cage
It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental… — Leo Tolstoy
For nothing so much disturbs the mind, though it be done for some beneficial purpose, as to innovate and introduce strange things,… — Saint John Chrysostom
The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs. — William Cowper
My work disturbs people and nobody wants to be disturbed. They are not fully aware of the effect my work has on… — Louise Bourgeois
A work of art does not need an explanation. The work has to speak for itself. The work may be subject to… — Louise Bourgeois
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay… — M. King Hubbert
For a day, just for one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace into those beautiful eyes. — Hafez

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