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The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.
“That Rome, which made the world good, used to have two suns; and they made visible two paths—the world's path and the pathway that is God's. One has eclipsed the other; now the sword has joined the shepherd's crook; the two together must of necessity result in evil.”
― The Purgatorio
― The Purgatorio
“and what the picture is in reality is this spirit, that’s what a picture really is, neither matter nor soul but both parts at the same time and together they make up what I think of as spirit, and maybe that’s why my good paintings, yes, all good paintings, have something to do with what I, what Christians, call The Holy Spirit, because all good art has this spirit, good pictures, good poems, good music, and what makes it good is not the material, not matter, and it’s not the content, the idea, the thought, no, what makes it good is just this unity of matter and form and soul that becomes spirit, that’s what culture is, probably, he says, it’s probably just one person being like another person that creates a culture, for example wearing a suit and tie, while what art is, yes, art is everyone just being like themselves, and totally themselves”
― Septology
― Septology
“The persecuted of to-day become the persecutors of to-morrow.”
― Rachel Dyer : A North American story
― Rachel Dyer : A North American story
“Return along old walks where thrusts of grass by force of love have split the measure stone.”
― Chicago: City on the Make
― Chicago: City on the Make
“No one listens, for pride, envy, and avarice
are three sparks that kindle in men's hearts
and sets them burning.”
― The Inferno
are three sparks that kindle in men's hearts
and sets them burning.”
― The Inferno
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