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“Hell is a state of mind - ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind - is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself:
A day of dappled seaborne clouds.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A day of dappled seaborne clouds.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.”
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“Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most adults wander the world deliberately blind, living only inside their heads, in their fantasies, in their memories and worries, oblivious to the present, only aware of the past or future.”
― The World to Come
― The World to Come
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