Consuelo Castiglioni Quotes & Sayings

I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about. — Joseph Kanon

All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice. — Karl Marx

Illusion starts between the ears. If the person doing illusion doesn't believe it, then the audience doesn't believe it. Seeing the picture in your head will allow the audience to see it in their heads. — RuPaul

Living more lives than one, knowing people of all classes, all shades of opinion, monarchists, republicans, socialists, anarchists, has had a salutary effect on my mind. If every year of my life, every month of the year, I had lived with reformers and crusaders I should be, by this time, a fanatic. As it is I have had such varied things to do, I have had so many different contacts that I am not even very much of a crank. — Rheta Childe Dorr

Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it. — Blaise Pascal

Necessity with the illusion of meaning would be the highest achievement for man; but when it becomes trivial there is no sense to one's life. — Ernest Becker

A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either. — Ellis Peters

The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union. — C.S. Lewis