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People think I'm crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness. Dostoyevsky had it right: 'Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.' Never are my senses more engaged than when the pain sets in. There is a magic in misery. Just ask any runner. ↗


— Dean Karnazes


#suffering #torture

How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is. ↗


— Erich Maria Remarque


#war #torture

Oh, I have feelings for him, all right. I'd like to put him in the ground myself, believe me. Still, it would be wrong. Promise me." "Fine. I promise I won't kill him." He said it too easily. My eyes narrowed. "Promise me right here and now that you will also never cripple, maim, dismember, blind, torture, bleed, or otherwise inflict any injury to Danny Milton. Or otherwise stand by while someone else does as you watch." "Blimey, that's not fair!" he protested ↗


— Jeaniene Frost


#torture

In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant. ↗


— David F. Wells


#culture #media #morality #personality #postmodernism

What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table? ↗


— Jacques Lacan


#convincing #could #face #gesture #laying

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese. ↗


— Christian Lacroix


#clothing #design #furniture #milanese #say

The groves were God's first temples. ↗


— William C. Bryant


#first #god #groves #temples #were

Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island. ↗


— Lactantius


#concerning #crete #enumerated #gods #having

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed. ↗


— Steve Lacy


#collaboration #i #i think #nature #revealed

I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else. ↗


— Alan Ladd


#else #entertaining #i #just #leave






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