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“Blaise rather liked the way that manners had been pared down to their essentials.”
― Hollywood
― Hollywood
“Fools cannot bear to have anyone over them, and so they ignore God or deny he exists. Some of this rebellion exists in every heart. Every sin is a kind of practical atheism—it is acting as if God were not there. That also means that belief in God must be a gift.”
― The Songs of Jesus: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Psalms
― The Songs of Jesus: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Psalms
“Guppy,” says Mr. Jobling, “I will not deny it. I was on the wrong side of the post. But I trusted to things coming round.” That very popular trust in flat things coming round! Not in their being beaten round, or worked round, but in their “coming” round! As though a lunatic should trust in the world’s “coming” triangular!”
― Bleak House
― Bleak House
“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“he allegedly told his host, “If this is coffee, please bring me some tea, but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”
― Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
― Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
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