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“I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost.”
― The Children of Men
― The Children of Men
“Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.”
― Innocent Blood
― Innocent Blood
“Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.”
― The Children of Men
― The Children of Men
“It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.”
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“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.”
― Julius Caesar
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.”
― Julius Caesar
A Book Observed: A C.S. Lewis Institute Book Club
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Welcome to A Book Observed: an online 'old book' club run by the C.S. Lewis Institute! Here we read and discuss a book every quarter in conjunction wi ...more
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