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He says that if we wait: people in our condition: until we see our way quite clearly, the way will be a narrow one indeed—the common way—the Grave, father.’
“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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“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
“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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“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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