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“But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?”
― A Circle of Quiet
― A Circle of Quiet
“I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.”
― A Circle of Quiet
― A Circle of Quiet
“Roses and thorns are parts of the same plant. Somehow though, some people are concerned mainly about the roses. The rose is not on the plant for more than a week, but the thorns are there forever.
Roses are teaching that the beauty of life will bloom, once you have taught yourself the lessons given by living with the thorns.”
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Roses are teaching that the beauty of life will bloom, once you have taught yourself the lessons given by living with the thorns.”
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“We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up. The children themselves haven't yet isolated themselves by selfishness and indifference; they do not fall easily into the error of despair; they are considerably braver than most grownups. Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it.”
― A Circle of Quiet
― A Circle of Quiet
“It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.”
― A Circle of Quiet
― A Circle of Quiet
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