“we are all greater than we know and that wisdom is the means to freedom.”
― The Razor's Edge
― The Razor's Edge
“Read the best writers from all different periods; keep your reading of contemporaries in proportion - you do not want a steady diet of contemporary literature. You already belong to your time.”
― Essays One
― Essays One
“Oh human creatures, born to soar aloft,
Why fall ye thus before a little wind?”
― The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Why fall ye thus before a little wind?”
― The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
“Imagination, there on high—
To high to breathe free, after such a climb—
Had lost its power; but now, just like a wheel
That spins so evenly it measures time
By space, the deepest wish that I could feel
And all my will, were turning with the love
That moves the sun and all the stars above.”
― The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
To high to breathe free, after such a climb—
Had lost its power; but now, just like a wheel
That spins so evenly it measures time
By space, the deepest wish that I could feel
And all my will, were turning with the love
That moves the sun and all the stars above.”
― The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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