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“Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Religion, then, is mysticism in which the mystical has been killed. Or, at least diminished.”
― Skinny Legs and All
― Skinny Legs and All
“People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously.”
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“Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was to her so horrible an outrage of human decency that, without replying, dazed and blinded, she bend her head as if to let her pelt f jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked. ”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
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