“ To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating. ”
- Ronald Firbank- Copy
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“ It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil — far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word "human" disappears from the race. ”
- Jill Tweedie- Copy
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“ The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings — woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general… only the female of the human species… ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ There is no mystery, at least not the kind you want. In real life there are no fogbound moors or clues on matchbooks or fifth columnists waiting to be unmasked. it would be nice if here were, because then there would be solutions to things in life, but it doesn't always work that way… ”
- Rogers Turrentine- Copy
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