#cause

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. ↗

— Andre Breton

#affairs #because #despairing #desperate #everything

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#because #been #childhood #demented #early

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#believe #directly #interpret #irrational #isolated

Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#degrade #efficient #his way #instrument #made

I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

#because #drawing #everything #hot #i

It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven. ↗

— Lactantius

#both #common #heaven #hint #jupiter

Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth. ↗

— Lactantius

#authority #because #believed #come #fiction

I was spoiled by Monk's music because it was so good, so complete. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#complete #good #i #monk #music

I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#because #crazy #foolish #go #i

My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#anywhere #because #i #kid #know