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“Either everything is sacred or nothing is. And if he starts burning other people’s things, then he loses something sacred also. Everyone gets what’s…

— Zadie Smith

“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and…

— Alexander Pope

“The sacred fire burns in our heart.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a…

— Anonymous

“If I put my head deliberately into the fire, there is no appeal to fire or to the maker of fire, and I have…

— Henry David Thoreau

“How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and…

— Alexander Pope

Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he…

— Edward Abbey

“If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims…

— Antonin Artaud

“For all that exists in man, whether good or evil, is rendered conspicuous by the presence of great danger. His inmost feelings are roused…

— Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker

“A man who has no fire, is an unfurtunate man”

— Anton Quintana

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“it makes no difference how important the provocation may be, but into what kind of soul it penetrates. Similarly with fire; it does not…

— Seneca