“But he asked himself now if he would not be disobeying God. And does not God permit love, since He surrounds it with such visible splendor?”
― The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One
― The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One
“We don't heal in isolation, but in community.”
― Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion
― Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion
“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
“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
“Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
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