“…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.”
Source: The Cider House Rules
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Source: The Cornel West Reader
“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.”
As quoted in Love Until It Hurts: A Tribute to Mother Teresa and the work of the men and women of the Missionaries of Charity (1980) by Daphne Rae
1980s
Address to Congress (1945)
Context: In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice.
Here in America, we have labored long and hard to achieve a social order worthy of our great heritage. In our time, tremendous progress has been made toward a really democratic way of life. Let me assure the forward-looking people of America that there will be no relaxation in our efforts to improve the lot of the common people.
“I found that it is much more pleasurable to read adventures than to live them.”
Source: The Ophiuchi Hotline (1977), Chapter 23 (p. 210)
“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship”
“Having found nothing worth more than emptiness, he leaves space vacant.”