“We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.”
― The Gathering
― The Gathering
“We don't heal in isolation, but in community.”
― Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion
― Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion
“Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her.”
― The Story of Avis
― The Story of Avis
“For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, ‘I am doing God's will on earth.’ All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
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