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The word “cathedral” comes from the Latin cathedra, meaning an “easy chair,” and came to refer to the “church” or “seat of a bishop,” or “the site of a bishop’s seat.” The cathedral functioned as the central church of a diocese,
“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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“What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?”
― Over the Teacups
― Over the Teacups
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
― Selected Letters
― Selected Letters
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