“Less and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly. More and more often there is embarrassment all around when the wish to hear a story is expressed. It is as if something that seemed inalienable to us, the securest among our possessions, were taken from us: the ability to exchange our experiences...Experience has fallen in value. And it looks as if it is continuing to fall into bottomlessness.” PeopleIfsLooksStoriesValuesFallWishAbilityTakenPossessionTalesFallenEncountersContinuingIdealismEmbarrassment Author:Walter Benjamin
“Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth [gems] of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession.” MenHeartFallHe ManConsciousPossessionMisfortunesAshesDewGemsSprinkles Author:Anna Cora Mowatt
“A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges. No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees. The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.” MenDoeFallWaterSinTreeHe ManHolyPossessionShouldersBathsHoly Water Author:Ramakrishna