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There is no woman's sides Can bide the beating of so strong a passion As love doth give my heart: no woman's heart So big to hold so much; they lack retention.
“You and Aldous Huxley", she said, "both have the same superior hate for the rest of the human race and wouldn't go one inch out of your way to help anyone. Evil has far more reality than good in your minds.”
― 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
“You have done what was required of you," said the Director. "You have obeyed and waited. It will often happen like that. As one of the modern authors has told us, the altar must often be built in one place in order that the fire from heaven may descend somewhere else. But don't jump to conclusions. You may have plenty of work to do before a month is passed...”
― That Hideous Strength
― That Hideous Strength
“In a century where the media publish endless stupidities, the cultured man is defined not by what he knows but by what he ignores.”
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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
“You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing—the gold lion, the bearded bull—which breaks through hedges and scatters the little kingdom of your primness as the dwarfs scattered the carefully made bed. The male you could have escaped, for it exists only on the biological level. But the masculine none of us can escape. What is above and beyond all things is so masculine that we are all feminine in relation to it. You had better agree with your adversary quickly.”
― That Hideous Strength
― That Hideous Strength
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