Dharma

“Pogroms were whipped up every minute and people were murdered daily, especially Jews of course.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, A Country Doctor's Notebook

“I was not even aware of getting dressed, which was no simple matter: trousers and shirt, felt boots, over my shirt a leather jerkin, then an overcoat topped by a sheepskin, fur hat, and my bag containing caffeine, camphor, morphine, adrenalin, clamps, sterile dressings, hypodermic, probe, a Browning automatic, cigarettes, matches, watch, stethoscope.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, A Country Doctor's Notebook

“A love as tender as that of a lover for his mistress dwells, undoubtedly, in some paternal hearts toward a son.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“they catch initials -- STD, PMS, OCD, HIV, etc., as if MTV teamed up with KFC and licensed the Latin alphabet to the pharmaceutical industry so OTCs could replace MDs. If Romeo and Juliet were alive today, they’d be put on antidepressants, sent for counseling, and bundled off to separate boarding schools to meet socially acceptable partners with money-back guarantees.”
― Paula Young Lee, How to Be a Homeless Frenchman