Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.

-William Congreve

Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.

-Bruno Jasienski

Lust is the cause of generation; Appetite is the support of life; Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life; Fraud the preservation of its instruments.

-Leonardo Da Vinci

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

-Gilbert K. Chesterto

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

-Stephen Vincent Benét

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

-Jeremy Preston Johnson

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in a wild revolt against herself.

-Oscar Wilde

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

-Hermann Hesse

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as an ordinary woman. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself. - Anais Nin

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