Sensualidade Liberal Quotes & Sayings

We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation. — Voltaire

The world, that is, of earthquake and cataclysm, cyclone and devastation; the violent matrix, the real world of unmastered, unmasterable physical stress that is entirely inimical to man because of its indifference. Ocean, forest, mountain, weather - these are the inflexible institutions of that world of unquestionable reality which is so far removed from the social institutions which make up our own world that we men must always, whatever our difference, conspire to ignore them. For otherwise we would be forced to acknowledge our incomparable insignificance and the insignificance of those desires that might be the pyrotechnic tigers of our world and yet, under the cold moon and the frigid round dance of the unspeakably alien planets, are nothing but toy animals cut from coloured paper. — Angela Carter

I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end. — Joyce Carol Oates

Over this year, familiarity had done its usual work, picking off the gilded paint one scratch at a time. — Frances Hardinge

It's easy to fall into the trap of assuming that a new technology is very similar to its predecessors. A new technology is often perceived as the linear extension of the previous one, and this leads us to believe the new technology will fill the same roles - just a little faster or a little smaller or a little lighter. — Michael J. Saylor

Thank God I never hooked on anything. I never had a monkey on my back. I just wanted to self-medicate, to numb myself through liquor. It's how I dealt with life, reality, stress, change, sadness, memories. The list goes on. I was really trying to feel nothing. — Johnny Depp

A suicide is tragic because nothing interrupted it. — Emma Woolf

If the weight of mortality does not grow lighter, does it at least get more familiar? — Paul Kalanithi

I've done what Lorien has intended me to do, and that's to undo damage that's been inflicted on those who don't deserve it. — Pittacus Lore