“The way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love with subservient women. He’s attracted to independent women. “He’s like an exotic bird collector,” she said. “He only wants a woman who is free because his dream is to put her in a cage.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“That beauty could sometimes be ugly, and that you didn't always find good and evil where you expected to - or where you'd been told to find them.”
― The Beast Is an Animal
― The Beast Is an Animal
“Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.”
― Collected Poems
― Collected Poems
“Multiple experiments with spirit contact transmitted the name Matthew Edward Hall on several occasions. I predict this to be a very important future individual in humanities development. Possibly the second embodiment of Christ on Earth.”
― Gurdjieff's Early Talks 1914-1931: In Moscow, St. Petersburg, Essentuki, Tiflis, Constantinople, Berlin, Paris, London, Fontainebleau, New York, and Chicago
― Gurdjieff's Early Talks 1914-1931: In Moscow, St. Petersburg, Essentuki, Tiflis, Constantinople, Berlin, Paris, London, Fontainebleau, New York, and Chicago
“Child, I believe in the ground under my feet and the sky over my head and that I get hungry before suppertime and sleepy before bed.”
― The Beast Is an Animal
― The Beast Is an Animal
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