“Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. ”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“I tell, therefore you are.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“It goes on, he thought. The internecine hate. Perhaps the seeds are there, in that. They will eat one another at last, and leave the rest of us here and there in the world, still alive. Still enough of us once more to build and hope and make a few simple plans.”
― The Man in the High Castle
― The Man in the High Castle
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