You cannot have a successful club without rules; but a family will really do without any rules exactly in proportion as it is a successful family.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Source: On Household Gods and Goblins (1922)
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‘We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable #terror .
It is #fantasy , served out in large rations by the popular #arts , which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.’
— Susan Sontag
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“In many shamanic societies, if you came to a #medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask you one of four questions:
When did you stop #dancing ?…”
— Gabrielle Roth
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'In each of us two powers preside, one male, one female...
The normal and comfortable state of being is that when the two live in harmony together, spiritually co-operating...
It is when this fusion takes place that the mind is fully fertilized and uses all its faculties.
Perhaps a mind that is purely masculine cannot create, any more than a mind that is purely feminine…'
— Virginia Woolfe
"The #truth is, a great #mind must be #androgynous ."
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.
— Cicero
‘To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world — in order to set up a shadow world of 'meanings.'
The aim … should be to make works of art — and, our own experience — more, rather than less, real to us.’
— Susan Sontag
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‘My desire to write is connected to my homosexuality.
I need the #identity as a weapon to match the weapon that #society has against me.
I am just becoming aware of how guilty I feel being #queer .’
— Susan Sontag
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