Ella

“I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.”
― Agostinho da Silva

“[...] we must recognize that in our own experience of emptiness, that even though one feels "empty", one must have a self in order to feel this emptiness; a loss cannot be felt unless what is missed is really a lost part of the self. Unwholeness is a feeling which belongs only to a being born whole and somehow denied access to this whole self. A being born "unwhole" would be whole in that partiality, happy with that cavernous state, and feel no emptiness, miss nothing, feel at home in a vacuum of identity. It is precisely because we have selves that we mourn.”
― Susan Griffin, Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature

“And once everyone agrees something is one way, all the other ways it could have been disappear.”
― Heidi Heilig, The Girl from Everywhere

“Faith has become a mere compound of credulity and prejudices, aye prejudices too which degrade man from rational being to beast. Which completely stifle the power of judgement between true and false. Which seem in fact carefully fostered for the purpose of extinguishing the last spark of reason.”
― Thomas Cook, Baruch Spinoza