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“To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of Shakespeare, of the luminous wisdom of Goethe, actually passes into the personality of the reader; so that in contact with the chaos of ordinary life certain free and flowing outlines emerge, like the forms of some classic picture, endowing both people and things with a grandeur beyond what is visible to the superficial glance.”
― John Cowper Powys

“...we might be nothing more than the dreams of our ancestors, returning always to those horrors too great to resolve.”
― Liam Howley, The Absurd Demise of Poulnabrone

“Fatuous words I don't trust you I trust silence
More than beauty more than anything
A festival of understanding”
― František Halas

“Really, this people, only yesterday so intelligent and discerning, seem to have been overcome by a disease of the mind”
― Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen