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“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
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“Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.”
― Death Comes for the Archbishop
― Death Comes for the Archbishop
“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
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