“Icarus should have waited for nightfall,
the moon would have never let him go.”
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the moon would have never let him go.”
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“But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?”
― These Broken Stars
― These Broken Stars
“He woke her then, and trembling and obedient, she ate that burning heart out of his hand. Weeping, I saw him then depart from me. Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for her? Find nourishment in the very sight of her? I think so. But would she see through the bars of his plight, and ache for him?”
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“Madness it is to hope that human minds
can ever understand the Infinite
that comprehends Three Persons in One Being.
Be satisfied with quia unexplained,
O Human race! If you knew everything,
no need for Mary to have borne a son.”
― The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio
can ever understand the Infinite
that comprehends Three Persons in One Being.
Be satisfied with quia unexplained,
O Human race! If you knew everything,
no need for Mary to have borne a son.”
― The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio
“So that the Universe felt love,
by which, as somebelieve,
the world has many times been turned to chaos.
And at that moment this ancient rock,
here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.”
― Inferno
by which, as somebelieve,
the world has many times been turned to chaos.
And at that moment this ancient rock,
here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.”
― Inferno
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