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Book cover for Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
When God tells Eve that Adam will “rule over her,” he is simply lamenting what is to come. God is not commanding it. His language is descriptive, not prescriptive. Adam naming Eve, putting her in her place, was neither what God ordained nor ...more
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Iris Murdoch
“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature

Iris Murdoch
“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”
Iris Murdoch

Charles Baudelaire
“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

Bob Mortimer
“dogs sharing an interest in a spillage (I imagine the dogs are called Zak Briefcase and Lengthy Parsnips).”
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Woody Allen
“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
Woody Allen

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