“Give me a prejudice and I will move the world.”

“I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.”

“In a solemn way, as if he had just thought of it, he said: The world is moving ahead. Yes, I said, it's moving ahead, but it's revolving around the sun.”

“...the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy love”

“They entrenched themselves in their preferences, their beliefs, their prejudices, and closed ranks against everything that was different”

“O became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.”

“It had to be a mad dream, one that would give her the courage she would need to discard the prejudices of a class that had not always been hers but had become hers more than anyone’s. It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.”