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“Faith is groping at air during the fall, hoping to find something to grab on to.”
― A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
― A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
“We are spiritual beings. But for many of us, malnutrition of the soul is a plague of modern life.”
― A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
― A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
“I sense, I have always sensed, that we slide from light to darkness, from glory to chaos, and perhaps that is good. My gods tell us that the world will end in chaos, so perhaps we are living the last days and even I might survive long enough to see the hills crack and the sea boil and the heavens burn as the great gods fight.”
― The Burning Land
― The Burning Land
“Armistice Day isn't to do with peace. It's to do with war and remembering one's dead. A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.”
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“I did not trust the era I lived in, nor did I want to live in it. The twentieth century had been the most violent in human history. The amount of killing had no precedent, and I had the feeling it was about to get started again, and once more by those who had never gone to war but gloated over the graves they spread through a neocolonial world. If I had to go to war again, I'd like to do it against those bastards.”
― Clete
― Clete
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