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“Love is the revelation of the other person’s freedom.” - Octavio Paz

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Die Liebe ist das geistige Auge, sie erkennt das Himmlische. - Bettina von Arnim -

“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.” ~ Robert M. Pirsig 𝑍𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 · Flowering dogwood by Aaron Burden

Women who choose not to have children face more outrage than men who abandon the children they already have.

Kazimierz Sichulski Zwiastowanie / Annunciation, 1934

“All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. If you leave a white post alone it will soon be a black post…” G.K. Chesterton

Pedophiles And Rapists Can Not Be Rehabilitated

Firstword firstflesh one light ever into worldmatter — Columbanus (translated by Kit Fryatt)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Jan Mankes, 𝘓𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘖𝘸𝘭 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯, 1913.

Benedetto Pistrucci & Carlo Giuliano, 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘢, c. 1840–1860.

I nipped into this sanctuary late this afternoon and soon heard the dying footfalls of closing time. From now on, my only effort will be to dodge the night watchman. Poets can dodge. ― John Collier, 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦

Alain Robbe-Grillet, 𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘕𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭 (translated by Richard Howard)

The male sex is more noble than the female sex, and for this reason Christ took human nature in the male sex. But lest the female sex should be despised, it was fitting that He should take flesh of a woman.

The madman is not the man who defies the world; he is the man who denies it.

It is often a strategic mistake to silence a man, because it leaves the world under the impression that he had something to say.

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