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posted by Staff, on 9 may 2025 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)

Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicket of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?

Pablo Neruda

posted by Staff, on 8 may 2025 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Friendship)

We all want friends at times.

Oscar Wilde

posted by Staff, on 8 may 2025 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom, Happiness)

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

Ana�s Nin

posted by Staff, on 7 may 2025 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Behavior)

I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness, as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

posted by Staff, on 7 may 2025 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Society, Freedom)

It is true that free people will also strive for independence, as far as that makes sense. But free people are not compelled to want independence by every external compulsion. They can also find all kinds of undesired discipline to be acceptable and pleasing.

Karl Barth

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