The heart is not simply suspended in a body but in a culture, a place, a time. – Mimi Guarneri, The Heart Speaks: A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of H
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering. – Octave Mirbeau