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As intellectualism suppresses belief in magic, the world's processes become disenchanted, lose the magical significance, and henceforth simply 'are' and 'happen' but no longer signify anything. — Max Weber

Poverty is a disease that's cured by the medicine of money. — A. E. Hotchner

Only the sun is in the sky. Nothing flies. There are no angels here. — Ally Condie

A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother. — Benjamin Franklin

I live by Edith Wharton's rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street. — Melissa Bank

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level. — Taylor Hackford

Friends made fast seldom remain fast. — Austin O'Malley

Longing, breathing, and panting after deliverance is a grace in itself, that has a mighty power to conform the soul into the likeness of the thing longed after ... unless you long for deliverance you shall not have it. — John Owen

Deep in her soul, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she would gaze out over the solitude of her life with desperate eyes, seeking some white sail in the mists of the far-off horizon. She did not know what this chance event would be, what wind would drive it to her, what shore it would carry her to, whether it was a longboat or a three-decked vessel, loaded with anguish or filled with happiness up to the portholes. But each morning, when she awoke, she hoped it would arrive that day. ... - GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, Madame Bovary — Lena Dunham

The episcopal palace was a huge and beautiful house, built of stone at the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget, Doctor of Theology of the Faculty of Paris, Abbe of Simore, who had been Bishop of D - in 1712. This palace was a genuine seignorial residence. Everything about it had a grand air, - the apartments of the Bishop, the drawing-rooms, the chambers, the principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb gallery which was situated on the ground-floor and opened on the gardens, M. Henri Puget had entertained in state, on July 29, 1714, My Lords Charles Brulart de Genlis, archbishop; Prince — Victor Hugo

I'm a sucker for Thought Catalog. Shelby Fero is really funny on Twitter. And Patton Oswalt, he's sort of like a Twitter throb. — Addison Timlin

This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize. — Sarah Manguso

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. — David Dixon