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"Honestly a bit confused why this book is so popular. I guess I’ll see if it gets better but the writing is very difficult to read and difficult to follow. It’s hard to get myself to care much about what’s going on because there’s not even a single protagonist to follow or any signs of personality in any of the characters to latch onto." — 15 hours, 15 min ago
"Honestly a bit confused why this book is so popular. I guess I’ll see if it gets better but the writing is very difficult to read and difficult to follow. It’s hard to get myself to care much about what’s going on because there’s not even a single protagonist to follow or any signs of personality in any of the characters to latch onto." — 15 hours, 15 min ago
said of beginnings—whether of texts, epochs, or ideas—the turning point is likewise a human construction, something we identify in retrospect.
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Love: Ten Poems
― Love: Ten Poems
“I know I am deathless,
I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass,
I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night.
I know I am august,
I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood,
I see that the elementary laws never apologize,
(I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by, after all)
I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
and if each and all be aware I sit content.
One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself,
And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten million years,
I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait.”
― Leaves of Grass
I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass,
I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night.
I know I am august,
I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood,
I see that the elementary laws never apologize,
(I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by, after all)
I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
and if each and all be aware I sit content.
One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself,
And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten million years,
I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait.”
― Leaves of Grass
“But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, "Courage, dear heart," and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan's, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face.”
― The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
― The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
“The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time.
Not only that, but maybe the basic message of original sin isn't "feel guilty all the time." Maybe it is more along these lines: "We all have a notion of what it means to be good, and we can't live up to it all the time.”
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Not only that, but maybe the basic message of original sin isn't "feel guilty all the time." Maybe it is more along these lines: "We all have a notion of what it means to be good, and we can't live up to it all the time.”
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Lady Windermere's Fan
― Lady Windermere's Fan
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