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“Which road, which road did you take
That brought you here at last?
No road, no road did I take.
I leaped, I leaped from dream to dream.
”
―
That brought you here at last?
No road, no road did I take.
I leaped, I leaped from dream to dream.
”
―
“How fleeting, how brief, how fragile is the life of a man, and how subject to misfortune, assailed already by a multitude of diseases and accidents, buildings which collapse, shipwrecks, earthquakes, lightning! We do not need to add war to our woes, and yet it causes more woe than all the others.”
― The Education of a Christian Prince with the Panegyric for Archduke Philip of Austria
― The Education of a Christian Prince with the Panegyric for Archduke Philip of Austria
“Sidnummer 36, sida 40 (Hus 3)
All things obstruct us while prudence rules our actions; we are afraid of everything and therefore fear to make progress—as if we could reach the inner chambers while others make the journey for us! As this is impossible, sisters, for the love of God let us exert ourselves, and leave our reason and our fears in His hands, paying no attention to the weaknesses of nature which might retard us.”
―
All things obstruct us while prudence rules our actions; we are afraid of everything and therefore fear to make progress—as if we could reach the inner chambers while others make the journey for us! As this is impossible, sisters, for the love of God let us exert ourselves, and leave our reason and our fears in His hands, paying no attention to the weaknesses of nature which might retard us.”
―
“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.”
― The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
― The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
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