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“There is no place, it seems, free from the intrusion of Man, who stretches out his hand for everything, even that which is in the air.”
― The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter
― The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter
“I only ask to live, with pure faith keeping
In word and deed that Law which leaps the sky,
Made of no mortal mould, undimmed, unsleeping
Whose living godhead does not age or die.”
― The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
In word and deed that Law which leaps the sky,
Made of no mortal mould, undimmed, unsleeping
Whose living godhead does not age or die.”
― The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
“Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances. None of us know what a year may bring forth.”
― Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
― Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
“one of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“The greatest evil that can oppress civilized peoples derives from wars, not, indeed, so much from actual present or past wars, as from the never-ending and constantly increasing arming for future war.”
― Perpetual Peace and Other Essays
― Perpetual Peace and Other Essays
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