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“Dorothy's world had become very small-visits to the chapel downstairs, vespers, and Communion, and opera on the radio (including Wagner, whom she refused to let Hitler, or even Wagner himself, ruin for her).”
― Dorothy Day; The World Will Be Saved By Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of Dorothy Day
― Dorothy Day; The World Will Be Saved By Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of Dorothy Day
“Not so young, sir, to love a woman for singing, nor so old to dote on her for anything. I have years on my back forty- eight.”
― King Lear
― King Lear
“An irreligious society cannot endure the truth of the human condition.
It prefers a lie, no matter how idiotic it may be.”
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It prefers a lie, no matter how idiotic it may be.”
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“The modern world seems invincible. Like the extinct dinosaurs.”
― Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa
― Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa
“It was not the great technocrats of Koenigsberg or Moscow who supplied the casualties in the siege of Stalingrad: it was superstitious Bavarian peasants and low-grade Russian agricultural workers. The effect of modern war is to eliminate retrogressive types, while sparing the technocracy and increasing its hold upon public affairs. In the new age, what has hitherto been merely the intellectual nucleus of the race is to become, by gradual stages, the race itself.”
― That Hideous Strength
― That Hideous Strength
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