“The candle is not lit
To give light, but to testify to the night.”
― The Night Abraham Called to the Stars: Poems
To give light, but to testify to the night.”
― The Night Abraham Called to the Stars: Poems
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
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“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”
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“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
[Thoughts on Various Subjects]”
― Abolishing Christianity and Other Essays
[Thoughts on Various Subjects]”
― Abolishing Christianity and Other Essays
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