“Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else.”
― City of the Sun
― City of the Sun
“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”
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“Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery.”
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“But the roaring of the fire,
And the warmth of fur,
And the boiling of the kettle
Were beautiful to her!”
― Renascence and Other Poems
And the warmth of fur,
And the boiling of the kettle
Were beautiful to her!”
― Renascence and Other Poems
“But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
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