“Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.”
Anaïs Nin book House of Incest
House of Incest (1936)
“The world is full of double beds
And most delightful maidenheads,
Which being so, there’s no excuse
For sodomy or self-abuse.”
"The world is full of double beds"
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Which being so, there’s no excuse
For sodomy or se…" by Hilaire Belloc?
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“The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.”
Mrs Patrick Campbell (1895–1940) British stage actress
Quoted in Alexander Woollcott, “The First Mrs. Tanqueray,” While Rome Burns (1934)
“Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.”
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
Fragment xi.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments
“Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer
Source: How to Win Friends & Influence People
“Call the miracle self-healing:
The utter self-revealing
double-take of feeling.”
Seamus Heaney The Cure at Troy
"Doubletake", from The Cure at Troy (1990)
Poetry Quotes, The Cure at Troy
Context: Call the miracle self-healing:
The utter self-revealing
double-take of feeling.
If there's fire on the mountain
Or lightning and storm
And a god speaks from the sky That means someone is hearing
the outcry and the birth-cry
of new life at its term.
“Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.”
Anne Wilson Schaef (1934–2020) American psychotherapist and author