Do I hear a challenge?” she whispers, “Oh, Carlos. You know I can’t resist a challenge.
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
Religions are the cradles of despotism.
Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade. . . the rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet. . . Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
Can we become other than what we are?
Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves; all men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.
Something there is moves me to love, and I Do know I love, but know not how, nor why.
If love is what I've experienced, I can't separate it from other people. I can't separate creation, and I can't separate whatever this creative thing is, from it's creation. I don't believe that can be done. We're all part of this creative force.
When people go at war they cheapen things.