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“Stars and blossoming fruit trees: Utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.”
― Gravity and Grace
― Gravity and Grace
“A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.”
― Waiting for God
― Waiting for God
“It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms. ”
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“He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.”
― Gravity and Grace
― Gravity and Grace
“Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight.”
― The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
― The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
Marcin’s 2025 Year in Books
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