Saturnalia
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Of all the cards in the deck, the Tree of Life may be the most familiar. It suggests the Garden of Eden and immortality, the spheres of the Kabbalah, the ash where Odin hanged, which holds up the heavens. Depending on the cards arranged
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“When we commemorate the end of a war, we neglect the way that it began. Every war ends, after all; but not every war had to begin.”
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“Instead, he described the way the sun set in the valley of Apan: first rich golden, deepening to amber, and then, with a swift, sure strike, night overtook the sun like the extinguishing of a candle. The darkness in the valley was so deep it was almost blue, and when thunderstorms slinked over steep hills into the valley, lightning spilled like mercury across fields of maguey, silvering the plants' sharp tips like the peaked helmets of conquistadors.”
― The Hacienda
― The Hacienda
“And this sense, this feeling of communion, would at moments overwhelm him. At such times he had the sensation that there was only one book in the universe, and that all books were simply portals into this greater ongoing work—an inexhaustible, beautiful world that was not imaginary but the world as it truly was, a book without beginning or end.”
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North
“All that can be done is for each one of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics; and I would say that one half of it should consist of books we have read and that have meant something for us, and the other half of books which we intend to read and which we suppose might mean something to us. We should also leave a section of empty spaces for surprises and chance discoveries.”
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“I do not see that it is necessary for any people to prove to another that they build cathedrals or pyramids before they can be entitled to peace and safety.”
― The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays
― The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays
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