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“Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “I am only joking!”
― ESV Reader's Bible
― ESV Reader's Bible
“I feel separated and cut off from the world around me, but occasionally I've felt that it was really a part of me, and I hope I'll have that feeling again, and that next time it won't go away. That's a dim, misty outline of the story that's told so often, of how man once lived in a golden age or a garden of Eden or the Hesperides ... how that world was lost, and how we some day may be able to get it back again. ... This story of the loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.”
― The Educated Imagination
― The Educated Imagination
“Whatever noblest things the mind received,
More and more foreign matter spoils the theme;
And when the good of this world is achieved,
What’s better seems an idle dream.
That gave us our life, the noblest urges
Are petrified in the earth’s vulgar surges”
― Faust
More and more foreign matter spoils the theme;
And when the good of this world is achieved,
What’s better seems an idle dream.
That gave us our life, the noblest urges
Are petrified in the earth’s vulgar surges”
― Faust
“Do you know that line of Kierkegaard’s, Canon Chambers? “There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.” ”
― Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death: Grantchester Mysteries 1
― Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death: Grantchester Mysteries 1
“A person, for example, reads in adulthood a book that is important for him, and it makes him say, "How could I have lived without reading it!" and also, "What a pity I did not read it in my youth!" Well, these statements do not have much meaning, especially the second, because after he has read that book, his life becomes the life of a person who has read that book, and it is of little importance whether he read it early or late, because now his life before that reading also assumes a form shaped by that reading.”
― Mr Palomar
― Mr Palomar
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