The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind; you shall grope about at noon as blind people grope in d...arkness, but you shall be unable to find your way; and you shall be continually abused and robbed, without anyone to help.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents,... each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till h...e becomes invisible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She's just a child, but I'm the one who's fainthearted.... She's the woman, but I'm the coward. She bears that high, swollen set of breasts, but I'm the one who's burdened. The heavy hips are hers, but I'm unable to move. It's a wonder how clumsy I've become because of flaws that shelter themselves in another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Stories of law violations are weighed on a different set of scales in the Black mind than in the white. Petty crimes embarrass the... community and many people wistfully wonder why Negroes don't rob more banks, embezzle more funds and employ graft in the unions.... This ... appeals particularly to one who is unable to compete legally with his fellow citizens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same ...time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The petit-bourgeois is a man unable to imagine the Other. If he comes face to face with him, he blinds himself, ignores and denies... him, or else transforms him into himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a so...rt of insecurity which some find titillating. If a woman wears a high-heeled shoe it changes the apparent musculature of the leg so that you get an effect of twanging sinew, of tension needing to be released. Her bottom sticks out like an offering. At the same time, the lofty perch is an expression of vulnerability, she is effectively hobbled and unable to escape. There is something arousing about this declaration that she is prepared to sacrifice function for form.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength--e...ach asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »