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Sexual freedom, sexual liberation. A modern delusion. We are hierarchical animals. Sweep one hierarchy away, and another will take its place, perhaps less palatable than the first.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
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She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.
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She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
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She was one of those people who said ''I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.''
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She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
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She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.
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Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.
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Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.
Source: Faceboek (2014) -
Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality.
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Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
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Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.
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Sin is plenty strong enough to create an ever-widening gap in one's relationship with God. The wider the gap, the less likely we are to pray. And the less we pray, the wider the gap becomes.
Source: Too Busy Not to Pray -
Sin, guilt, neurosis -they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
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Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
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Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight, I wanted to be one so I could tell people off.
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Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
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