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While his mother suggested—and other relatives urged—that he go to work and learn a trade he contented himself with dreaming of his future as an artist and with idling away the pleasant days along the Danube. He never forgot the “downy
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“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
“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
“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
“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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“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
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