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| aeaae12 | Long after Pacifiique's gay whistle had faded into the phantom of music and then into silence far up under the maples of Lover's Lane Anne stood under the willows, tasting the poignant sweetness of life when some great dread has been removed from it. The morning was a cup filled with mist and glamor. In the corner near her was a rich surprise of new-blown, crystal-dewed roses. The trills and trickles of song from the birds in the big tree a.. | L. M. Montgomery | ||
| 94d2a6c | People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne. | people | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 382954e | Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake. It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily. There was a dish of salt for everyone to dip their eggs into. 'I don't know why, but the meals we have on picnics a.. | nature indoors picnics outdoors meals eggs food evening | Enid Blyton | |
| e96e6fa | white supremacy" is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force (i.e slavery, apartheid) than the term "internalized racism"- a term most often used to suggest that black people have absorbed negative feelings and attitudes about blackness. The term "white supremacy" enables us to recognize not only that black people are socialized to e.. | prejudice white-supremacy race | bell hooks | |
| 314886f | Once upon a time black male "cool" was defined by the ways in which black men confronted hardships of life without allowing their spirits to be ravaged. They took the pain of it and used it alchemically to turn the pain into gold. That burning process required high heat. Black male cool was defined by the ability to withstand the heat and remain centered. It was defined by black male willingness to confront reality, to face the truth, and b.. | identity masculinity | bell hooks | |
| d752d32 | Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. | bell hooks | ||
| ec02599 | In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. --Aristotle | poverty | Cornel West | |
| b2e1e38 | Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. And our public life lies in shambles, shot through with icy cynicism and paralyzing pessimism. To put it bluntly, beneath the record-breaking stock markets on Wall Street and bipartisan budget-balancing deals in the White House lurk ominous clouds of despair across this na.. | Cornel West | ||
| dedbb75 | How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along? | life supernatural | Rachel Klein | |
| 1c63b32 | I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3e9b03a | In every idea emanating from genius, or even in every serious human idea -- born in the human brain -- there always remains something -- some sediment -- which cannot be expressed to others, though one wrote volumes and lectured upon it for five-and-thirty years. There is always a something, a remnant, which will never come out from your brain, but will remain there with you, and you alone, for ever and ever, and you will die, perhaps, with.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a0a94ef | Full freedom will come only when it makes no difference whether to live or not to live. That's the goal for everyone. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6401f7f | Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy; only because of that. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| d04498a | You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires. | royalty perversion | Tom Stoppard | |
| 89d3526 | I am the Atma abiding in the heart of all beings. I am also the beginning, the middle, and the end of all beings. | lord-krishna soul | Anonymous | |
| a16e558 | In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. All the praises and thanks be to Allah, the Lord of the 'Alamin (mankind, jinns and all that exists). The Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. The Only Owner of the Day of Recompense (i.e. the Day of Resurrection) You (Alone) we worship, and You (Alone) we ask for help. Guide us to the Straight Way... The Way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not (the way) of th.. | worship religion praise thanks grace anger help mercy creator | Anonymous | |
| c6c43c3 | n lmw'mn lydrk bHsn lkhlq drj@ lSy'm wlqy'm | religion aisha ebn-habban | Anonymous | |
| e538851 | Earth without | earth | Mysterious Anonymous and Unknown | |
| d2dfb11 | You can't think your way into right action, but you can act your way into right thinking. | Bill Wilson | ||
| 727c928 | We sometimes hurt those we love because they need to be "taught a lesson," when we really want to punish. We were depressed and complained we felt bad, when in fact we were mainly asking for sympathy and attention. This odd trait of mind and emotion, this perverse wish to hide a bad motive underneath a good one, permeates human affairs from top to bottom. This subtle and elusive kind of self-righteousness can underlie the smallest act or th.. | Alcoholics Anonymous | ||
| c94611e | treasure up these words in thy heart. Be faithful and diligent in keeping the commandments of God and I will encircle thee in the arms of my love. | religious lds uplifting | Anonymous | |
| a8ca787 | She is clothed in strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future. | Anonymous | ||
| 922fe17 | It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 09c9dba | Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish. | Victor Hugo | ||
| a17c135 | Throughout the month of May, every night, in that poor, wild garden, under that shrubbery, each day, more perfumed and dense, two human beings composed of every chastity and every innocence, every flowing with all the felicities of Heaven, closer to archangels than men, pure, honest, intoxicated, radiant, glowed for each other in the darkness. It seemed to Cosette that Marius had a crown, and to Marius that Cosette had a halo. They touched,.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 5e063e7 | Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' Talk is clouds, Table Talk is smoke." Les Miserables" | Victor Hugo | ||
| 8591927 | Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the idea of duty, are things that, when in error, can turn hideous, but - even though hideous - remain great; their majesty, peculiar to the human conscience, persists in horror. They are virtues with a single vice - error. The pitiless, sincere joy of a fanatic in an act of atrocity preserves some mournful radiance that inspires veneration. Without suspecting it, Javert, in his dreadful happiness, wa.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 4e6aaf9 | These loaves, pigeons, and two little boys seemed unearthly. It all happened at the same time: a little boy ran over to a pigeon, glancing over at Levin with a smile; the pigeon flapped its wings and fluttered, gleaming in the sunshine among the snowdust quivering in the air, while the smell of freshly baked bread was wafted out of a little window as the loaves were put out. All this together was so extraordinarily wonderful that Levin burs.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 48d2f53 | but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| a19b84c | And he has to live like this on the edge of destruction, alone, with nobody at all to understand or pity him | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 78470f8 | With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better. | home | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 2b6d84d | A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought by virtue of his own struggle and toil; but now a new type of born freethinker has been appearing, who've never even heard that there have been laws of morality and religion, and that there are authorities, but who simply grow up with negative ideas about everything, that is savages. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 0ab7e72 | They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox. | marriage relationships | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 22fbd2f | You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| c78cfc0 | One morning I fell to sketching a face: what sort of a face it was to be, I did not care or know. I took a soft black pencil, gave it a broad point, and worked away. Soon I had traced on the paper a broad and prominent forehead and a square lower outline of visage: that contour gave me pleasure; my fingers proceeded actively to fill it with features. Strongly-marked horizontal eyebrows must be traced under that brow; then followed, naturall.. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| ea37dbd | We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 5b8a439 | Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents. | rhett-butler-to-scarlett yankees southerners | Margaret Mitchell | |
| 5158a0c | She [Melanie] is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| bb8a409 | I loved something I made up | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 4310232 | Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: "Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please" This also became Conrad's epitaph." | Joseph Conrad | ||
| d185eb0 | We were dreamers, both of us, unpractical, reserved, full of great theories never put to test, and like all dreamers, asleep to the waking world. Disliking our fellow men, we craved affection; but shyness kept impulse dormant until the heart was touched. When that happened the heavens opened, and we felt, the pair of us, that we have the whole wealth of the universe to give. We would have both survived, had we been other men. | love | Daphne du Maurier | |
| d104a87 | and through it all and afterwards they would be together, making their own world where nothing mattered but the things they could give to one another, the loveliness, the silence, and the peace. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| b2b846e | America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception. Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrat.. | James Ellroy | ||
| d03ed55 | There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. | life transience | James Salter |