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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“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
“Not only does the actual meaning of every event always transcend any number of past "causes" which we may assign to it, this past itself comes into being only with the event itself.”
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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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“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
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