“Nothing is further than Earth from Heaven: nothing is nearer than Heaven to Earth.”
David Hare (1947) British writer
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 563.
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“Nothing is further from sadism, for example, than the cheerful, optimistic mentality of a Shaw or Wells.”
Source: The Origins of the Sexual Impulse (1963), p. 158
Context: Sadism is plainly connected with the need for self-assertion. At the same time it cannot be separated from the idea of defeat. A sadist is a man, who, in some sense, has his back to the wall. Nothing is further from sadism, for example, than the cheerful, optimistic mentality of a Shaw or Wells.
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