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“For the historian of religions, every manifestation of the sacred is important: every rite, every myth, every belief or divine figure reflects the experience of the sacred and hence implies the notions of being, of meaning, and of truth ... In short, the "sacred" is an element in the structure of consciousness and not a stage in the history of consciousness.”
― A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries
― A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries
“and if your name isn’t known, then it’s a very lonely feeling.”
― A Wind in the Door
― A Wind in the Door
“most women have no conversation. And the worst thing is, it’s not because they’re incapable of it, it’s because they don’t bother trying.”
― The Awakening of Miss Prim
― The Awakening of Miss Prim
“Picket,” he said quietly, “stay angry. It’s okay if it’s at me, for now. If you aren’t angry about the wicked things happening in the world all around, then you don’t have a soul.”
― The Green Ember
― The Green Ember
“In exile, the road home lies through language, through dreams.”
― Ordeal by Labyrinth: Conversations with Claude-Henri Rocquet
― Ordeal by Labyrinth: Conversations with Claude-Henri Rocquet
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