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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
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The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand…
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Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot…
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Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers…
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The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is…
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Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing…
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Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.
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Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.
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I avoid looking in the mirror.
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I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.
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I shop online because I don't like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.
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If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to…
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
— Josh Billings
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The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully…
— Henri Nouwen
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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Common sense often makes a good law.
— William O. Douglas
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The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter…
— John Polkinghorne
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A lecturer often makes you feel dumb at one end and numb at the other.
— Evan Esar
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A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of…
— Plutarch
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Because life doesn't work that way. You can do everything perfectly. Do everything you think you're supposed to be doing. Fulfill every…
— David Baldacci
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