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“Solomon's suitors for myrrh and frankincense; Zeu's children in a royal hunt for the seat of the sun-god of the Nile; scouts and emissaries from Genghis Khan; Arab geographers and also hunters for slaves and ivory; soul and gold merchants from Gaul and from Bismark's Germany; land-pirates and human game-hunters from Victorian and Edwardian England: they had all passed here bound for a kingdom of plenty, driven sometimes by holy zeal, sometimes by genuine thirst for knowledge and the quest for the spot where the first man's umbilical cord was buried, but more often by mercenary commercial greed and love of the wanton destruction of those with a slightly different complexion from theirs.”
― Petals of Blood
― Petals of Blood
“Do not piss as you stand and face the sun, but do it after the sun sets and before it rises, and even then do not be naked, for nights belong to the gods.
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Sire your children when you return from a feast of the gods, not when you return from an ill-omened burial.
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The sixth day of the month does not favor plants but is good for the birth of boys; it does not favor either the birth or the marriage of girls. But gelding of kids and lambs hurts less then.”
― Theogony / Works and Days
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Sire your children when you return from a feast of the gods, not when you return from an ill-omened burial.
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The sixth day of the month does not favor plants but is good for the birth of boys; it does not favor either the birth or the marriage of girls. But gelding of kids and lambs hurts less then.”
― Theogony / Works and Days
“My dreams fill me and help me eat time.”
― The Expedition to the Baobab Tree
― The Expedition to the Baobab Tree
“What you say is true,’ said Fr. Dioscuros with a smile. ‘You can pray anywhere. After all, God is everywhere, so you can find him everywhere.’ He gestured to the darkening sand dunes outside: ‘But in the desert, in the pure clean atmosphere, in the silence – there you can find yourself . And unless you begin to know yourself, how can you even begin to search for God?”
― From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
― From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
“Sometimes one controls one's acts; one controls less often one's thoughts; one never controls one's dreams. I had dreams.”
― Alexis o el tratado del inútil combate
― Alexis o el tratado del inútil combate
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