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Her eyes were a deep green contrasting strikingly against red hair, pulled efficiently out of the way in a ponytail. She was standing there, arm straight, hand out, confidently holding his gaze, waiting. He reached out his hand and grabbed
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“Since God is the Father of lights, even the dim and guttering lights of paganism could be ascribed ultimately to Him. Christians should feel no obligation to quench the smouldering flax burning in pagan myths: on the contrary, they should do their best to fan it into flame.”
― Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis
― Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis
“If she had ever once in her life given the realities of life in seventeenth-century Bohemia a fleeting thought—and she most certainly had not—she would have pictured a world of superstition and suffering where obscenely rich and powerful aristocrats oppressed the miserable mass of grimy peasants whose lives were nasty, brutish, and short. Yet the folk she observed bustling around her, while admittedly grimy and short, seemed a fairly happy lot—judging solely from the air of amiable bonhomie permeating the Old Town square. Everywhere she looked, people were smiling, laughing, greeting one another with formal handshakes and kisses.”
― The Bright Empires Collection
― The Bright Empires Collection
“Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.”
― The Federalist Papers
― The Federalist Papers
“Beauty will save the world.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of "systematically assisting Sisyphus's stealthy, cyst-susceptible sister," which is easier done than said.”
― The Hostile Hospital
― The Hostile Hospital
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