Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.
They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
Through fasting. . . I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?
For democrats, it's as crucial to defend secular culture as to preserve secular law. And in fact the two projects are inseparable: When religion defines morality, the wall between church and state comes to be seen as immoral.
Human, all too human.
Without even knowing it, we are assaulted by a high note of urgency all the time. We end up pacing ourselves to the city rhythm whether or not it's our own. In time we even grow hard of hearing to the rest of the world. Like a violinist stuck next to the timpani, we may lose the ability to hear our own instrument.