Deepener Quotes & Sayings

As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church. — James Boswell

Whether I am believed or not, I will repeat that Vladimir Soloviov, who held that Dostoevsky was a prophet, is wrong, and that N. K. Mikhailovsky, who calls him a cruel talent and a grubber after buried treasure, is right. Dostoevsky grubs after buried treasure no doubt about that. And, therefore, it would be more becoming in the younger generation that still marches under the flag of pious idealism if, instead of choosing him as a spiritual leader, they avoided the old sorcerer, in whom only those gifted with great shortsightedness or lack of experience in life could fail to see the dangerous man. — Lev Shestov

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My most recent purchase was a black lace corset. — Lexa Doig

A man dies and his skin loses heat like the sand on a summer evening. It makes you feel like warming him up. — Erri De Luca

Anti-violence politics, along with other revolutionary impulses, changed from a focus on working to transform patriarchy, racism, and poverty to cooperation and integration with the police. This has proven to be a significant turn because the police are, ironically, the embodiment of patriarchy, racism, and the enforcement of the US class system. John — Sarah Schulman

Better to have rarely loved and hardly lost, than ever to have loved at all. Better to be safe than sorry, better to stay out of the kitchen if you don't want to get burned — Charlotte Stein

All things on earth have their price, and for truth we pay the dearest. We barter it for love and sympathy. The road to honour is paved with thorns; but on the path to truth, at every step you set your foot down on your heart. — Olive Schreiner

I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan. — Shigeru Yoshida

Twilight whippoorwill ... Whistle on, sweet deepener Of dark loneliness — Matsuo Basho