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Erica Jong quote: "the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul...."
the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger. Erica Jong
The American intellectuals, in their preoccupation with reality, seem to have forgotten that the real enemy is War rather than imperial Germany. There is work to be done to prevent this war of ours from passing into popular mythology as a holy crusade. What shall we do with leaders who tell us that we go to war in moral spotlessness or who make “democracy” synonymous with a republican form of government? Randolph Bourne
Willa Cather quote: "People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this..."
People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. Willa Cather
Pearl S. Buck quote: "I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings."
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings. Pearl S. Buck
In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more than a simple appreciation for the comforts and privileges most Americans enjoyed and took for granted. It wasn't until I had lost America for a time that I realized how much I loved her. John McCain
Roberto Bolano quote: "Reading is more important than writing."
Reading is more important than writing. Roberto Bolano
Raoul Vaneigem quote: "To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than..."
To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil. Raoul Vaneigem
The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman. Karl Lagerfeld
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy. Jonathan Swift
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research. Albert Einstein
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces. Hannah Arendt
If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first. Oscar Wilde
You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education. Bob Black
Aristotle quote: "I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who..."
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies. Aristotle
But I'm married, and believe me, in getting to know thoroughly one's wife, if one loves her, as some one has said, one gets to know all women better than if one knew thousands of them. Leo Tolstoy

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