“Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.”
Source: Snow Falling on Cedars (1994), Ch. 32, last page.
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“There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.”
“It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.”
Source: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
“Nature provides exceptions to every rule.”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
Context: Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But, in fact, they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
History jeers at the attempts of physiologists to bind great original laws by the forms which flow from them. They make a rule; they say from observation what can and cannot be. In vain! Nature provides exceptions to every rule. She sends women to battle, and sets Hercules spinning; she enables women to bear immense burdens, cold, and frost; she enables the man, who feels maternal love, to nourish his infant like a mother.
“Inside every widow there's a spider that weaves it's webs in the corners of her heart.”
"Voices Within the Ark", ibid.
“To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!”
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“O happy race of mortals,
if your hearts are ruled
as is the universe, by Love!”
O felix hominum genus,
si uestros animos amor
quo caelum regitur regat!
Poem VIII, lines 28-30; translation by W. V. Cooper
Alternate translation:
: How happy is mankind
if the love that orders the stars above
rules, too, in your hearts.
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book II
Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.17