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The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.


Robert South


#incomprehensible #mind #paradoxical #substances #things

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.


Robert South


#expectation #finds #greatest #half #himself

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.


Robert South


#greatly #lighten #nothing #prove #relieve

Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.


Joanna Southcott


#another #ceased #dreamed #ears #flock

The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth.


Joanna Southcott


#chained #christ #destroyed #down #earth

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.


Terry Southern


#capacity #important #important thing #shock #thing

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.


Erich Fromm


#air #breathing #bright #effort #fresh

It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything.


Terry Southern


#credit #directors #everything #film #including

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.


Robert Southey


#deception #else #falsehood #indeed #into

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.


Robert Southey


#doing #first #first step #impossible #mind






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