What I do not know and cannot even hope to understand before I die is why human beings are willfully, coldly, matter-of-factly cruel to each other ... What nerve has atrophied in the torturer, or worse is sensually moved?
The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle. - Storm Jameson
The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.
- Storm Jameson
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. - Storm Jameson
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification. - Storm Jameson
There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.
You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless. - Storm Jameson
You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.
There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive; this minute here and now. Th… - Storm Jameson
There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive; this minute here and now. Th…
For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received. - Storm Jameson
For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
Hope is a talent like any other. - Storm Jameson
Hope is a talent like any other.
I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible. - Storm Jameson
I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.
Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. - Storm Jameson
Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.
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