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“Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.”
― The End of the Affair
― The End of the Affair
“Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.”
― Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
― Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
“Bossuet has a sentence which is beyond the comprehension of an apostle who does not realize what must be the soul of his apostolate. It runs: “When God desires a work to be wholly from His hand, he reduces all to impotence and nothingness, and then He acts.” Nothing wounds God so much as pride.”
― Soul of the Apostolate
― Soul of the Apostolate
“I believe in God and the whole business but I love women best, music and science next, whiskey next, God fourth, and my fellowman hardly at all.”
― Love in the Ruins
― Love in the Ruins
“People with a strong sense of being embodied creatures, rather than being bundles of appetite provided with the machinery of a body to work upon, will prove difficult to persuade in the coming century of the biotechnocrats.”
― Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
― Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
Alex’s 2025 Year in Books
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