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Book cover for Bee: The Princess of the Dwarfs
Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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Kabir
“The home is the abiding place; in the home is reality; the home helps to attain Him Who is real. So stay where you are, and all things shall come to you in time.”
Kabir, Songs of Kabir

Kabir
“So long as man clamours for the I and Mine, his works are as naught: When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done.”
Kabir

Anatole France
“Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.”
Anatole France, Bee: The Princess of the Dwarfs

C.S. Lewis
“All the things magicians do
Could be done by me and you
Freely, if we only knew.”
C. S. Lewis

Ernest Hemingway
“Don’t get discouraged because there’s a lot of mechanical work to writing … I rewrote the first part of A Farewell to Arms at least fifty times….The first draft of anything is shit.”
Ernest Hemmingway

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