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“Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.”
― Fire and Hemlock
― Fire and Hemlock
“This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One submits oneself to other minds (teachers) in order to increase the chance that one will be looking in the right direction when a comet makes its sweep through a certain patch of sky.”
― On Beauty and Being Just
― On Beauty and Being Just
“How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.”
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“He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood.”
― Brighton Rock
― Brighton Rock
“A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their hope is a humble hope; and their joy, even when it is unspeakable and full of glory, is a humble broken-hearted joy, and leaves the Christian more poor in spirit, and more like a little child, and more disposed to a universal lowliness of behaviour.”
― The Religious Affections
― The Religious Affections
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