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“Those who crusade not for God in themselves but against the devil in others, never succeed in leaving the world better, but leave it as it was or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was before the crusade began.”
― The Devils of Loudun
― The Devils of Loudun
“I feel as though I were living in a world of strange beings — do you? It’s people that make things so — silly. As long as you can keep away from them you’re safe and you’re happy.”
― The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
― The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
“The eyes of the young are drawn to the stars, and the spirit of youth is seldom earth-bound.”
― The Well of Loneliness
― The Well of Loneliness
“For self-educated scientists and thinkers such as Charles Darwin, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Leonardo-da-Vinci, Michael Faraday, myself and many others, education is a relentless voyage of discovery. To us education is an everlasting quest for knowledge and wisdom.”
― The Education Decree
― The Education Decree
“If our love is a sin, then heaven must be full of such tender and selfless sinning as ours.”
― The Well of Loneliness
― The Well of Loneliness
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