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Petra
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what most matters is not those things for which either politics or materialism tells us to strive, that what matters is fulfilling those four capacities with which we’re born—love, hope, faith, and respect for the truth—while holding fast
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“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
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“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
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“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
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“Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature,--loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.”
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“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Music at Night and Other Essays
― Music at Night and Other Essays
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Petra’s 2025 Year in Books
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