Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence. – Marguerite Blessington
Tears fell from my eyes–yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed. – Marguerite Blessington
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out. – Marguerite Blessington
The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. – Marguerite Blessington
Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadnt the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us. – Henry Miller