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“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
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“Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.”
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“Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.”
― The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
― The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”
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“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
― Transit of Venus
― Transit of Venus
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