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Calendula is Currently Reading

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The Abbey Girls (The Abbey Girls, #2)

by Elsie J. Oxenham

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Oct 03, 2026 03:58AM

Calendula’s Quotes

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
― Simone Weil

tags: ethics, evil, good, morality, reality

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“Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...And onward full-tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct...Crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never

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