#vs

In Dostoevsky there were things unbelievable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them; frailty and madness, wickedness and saintliness, and the insanity of gambling were there to know as you knew the landscape and the roads in turgenev ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#hemingway #reading #change

Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster. ↗

— Kohta Hirano

#desperation #good-and-bad #good-and-evil #grief #hopelessness

It will just upset you." No my freaking way! He didn't just tell me I'm weak to him, did he? "Yes, Ian. Thanks for reminding me I am just a dang girl in your eyes." A string of not ladylike curse words went across the marquee of my brain. "Be reasonable," he snipped out at me. Oh.No.He.Didn't. "Reasonable caught a train to Canada. Meet her peeved counterpart who wants to snap boy parts off and sterilize them to spare the future generations of learning that equal doesn't mean jack squat." - Grace ↗

— Cyndi Goodgame

#equality

Tactile receptors weren't needed to experience pain. Tone of voice transported those spores just as easily. ↗

— Clyde Dsouza

#science-vs-religion #experience

Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it. ↗

— John Dewey

#science-vs-religion #faith

Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence. ↗

— Lev Shestov

#faith

Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess. ↗

— Maile Meloy

#family #genetics #short-story #spy-vs-spy #family

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#astronomy-vs-gastronomy #food #happiness #food

You should pass us by and forgive us our happiness," said the prince in a low voice. ↗