"Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action."
- Hope Mirrlees
"A writer observes. A writer records for posterity. The moments in the transience of the labyrinth of time that would go unrecorded otherwise! A writer records for value. A writer records for sentiment..."
- Avijeet Das
"Mystical organizations are only a crystallization of facts which can be found, in a more diffuse and less tangible form, in all strata of people. The degree of mystical, sentimental and sadistic feeli..."
- Wilhelm Reich