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“Death was in every fibre of these creatures. It was hidden in their languages and at the root of their civilizations. You could hear it in the sounds they made and see it in the way they moved. It darkened their pleasures and lightened their despair.”
― Fifteen Dogs
― Fifteen Dogs
“Perfect understanding between beings is no guarantor of happiness. To perfectly understand another’s madness, for instance, is to be mad oneself.”
― Fifteen Dogs
― Fifteen Dogs
“I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: the most conscientious student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning.”
― The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
― The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
“Perfect understanding between beings is no guarantor of happiness. To perfectly understand another's madness, for instance, is to be mad oneself. The veil that separates earthly beings is, at times, a tragic barrier, but it is also, at times, a great kindness.”
― Fifteen Dogs
― Fifteen Dogs
“why is there day, why must night come … – Pablo Neruda, ‘Ode to a Dog”
― Fifteen Dogs
― Fifteen Dogs
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