“We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place
between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting...
It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.”
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between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting...
It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.”
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“The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don't belong to English though I belong nowhere else.”
― Bilingual Blues: Poems, 1981-1994
― Bilingual Blues: Poems, 1981-1994
“The heart of the matter is a matter of the heart.”
― The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
― The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
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