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""Religious fundamentalism is often represented as authentic spiritual practice and given a level of mass media exposure that countercultural religious thought and practice never receive."" — Jul 10, 2022 12:36AM
""Religious fundamentalism is often represented as authentic spiritual practice and given a level of mass media exposure that countercultural religious thought and practice never receive."" — Jul 10, 2022 12:36AM
“I am afraid that we may be raising a generation of young people who will grow up afraid to love, afraid to give themselves completely to another person, because they'll have seen how much it hurts to take the risk of loving and have it not work out. I'm afraid they'll grow up looking for intimacy without risk, for pleasure without significant emotional investment. They'll be so fearful of the pain of disappointment that they'll forgo the possibilities of love and joy.”
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“We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep.
We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the
day.
We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep,
Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away;
It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow,
The path of its departure still is free.
Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;
Nought may endure but mutability!”
― Frankenstein
We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the
day.
We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep,
Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away;
It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow,
The path of its departure still is free.
Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;
Nought may endure but mutability!”
― Frankenstein
“It is so
long before the mind can persuade itself that
she whom we saw every day and whose very
existence appeared a part of our own can have
departed forever—that the brightness of a be-
loved eye can have been extinguished and the
sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear
can be hushed, never more to be heard.”
― Frankenstein
long before the mind can persuade itself that
she whom we saw every day and whose very
existence appeared a part of our own can have
departed forever—that the brightness of a be-
loved eye can have been extinguished and the
sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear
can be hushed, never more to be heard.”
― Frankenstein
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“But I have one want which I have never yet
been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil, I
have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing
with the enthusiasm of success, there will be
none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by
disappointment, no one will endeavor to sustain me in dejection. I shall commit my
thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor
medium for the communication of feeling. I
desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to
mine. You may deem me romantic, my dear
sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend. I
have no one near me, gentle yet courageous,
possessed of a cultivated as well as of a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own, to
approve or amend my plans. How would such
a friend repair the faults of your poor brother!”
― Frankenstein
been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil, I
have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing
with the enthusiasm of success, there will be
none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by
disappointment, no one will endeavor to sustain me in dejection. I shall commit my
thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor
medium for the communication of feeling. I
desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to
mine. You may deem me romantic, my dear
sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend. I
have no one near me, gentle yet courageous,
possessed of a cultivated as well as of a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own, to
approve or amend my plans. How would such
a friend repair the faults of your poor brother!”
― Frankenstein
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