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“In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
“I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the fierce magic emerging here. I am witness to flexible eternity, the evolving past, and I know we will live forever, as dust or breath in the face of stars, in the shifting pattern of winds.”
― Secrets from the Center of the World (Volume 17)
― Secrets from the Center of the World (Volume 17)
“What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind's breath?”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
“The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Christine’s 2025 Year in Books
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