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""When the artist is a servant of the work, the work is better than the artist." How is she so GOOD" — Jul 20, 2025 09:25AM
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“My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.”
― The Last Unicorn
― The Last Unicorn
“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.”
― Till We Have Faces
― Till We Have Faces
“As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the doors she may not enter. Almost we linger with Sorrow for very love.”
― Phantastes
― Phantastes
“God doesn't love me because of what I can do for him. He just loves me - even when I've done nothing at all.”
― Me, Myself & Bob: A True Story About God, Dreams, and Talking Vegetables
― Me, Myself & Bob: A True Story About God, Dreams, and Talking Vegetables
“Sometimes I think a man could wander across the disc all his life and not see everything there is to see,' said Twoflower. 'And now it seems there are lots of other worlds as well. When I think I might die without seeing a hundredth of all there is to see it makes me feel,' he paused, then added, 'well, humble, I suppose. And very angry, of course.”
― The Color of Magic
― The Color of Magic
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