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pentateuch read in 04/03/2024- the language of kjv was generally pretty good & quite beautiful or striking at times. genesis was definitely the most fascinating book. jacob strikes me as an odysseus figure. josephs story in egypt was really emotional
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“There remained the inexplicable mass of rock. The legend tried to explain the inexplicable. As it came out of a substratum of truth it had in turn to end in the inexplicable.”
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“Therefore we call final without qualification that which is always desirable in itself and never for the sake of something else. Now such a thing happiness, above all else, is held to be.”
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“One cannot step twice into the same river, nor can one grasp any mortal substance in a stable condition, but it scatters and again gathers; it forms and dissolves, and approaches and departs.”
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“You cannot love, and this is why you seek
To find men vicious, or depraved, or weak
If you could search for love and persevere
The sins of other men would disappear.”
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To find men vicious, or depraved, or weak
If you could search for love and persevere
The sins of other men would disappear.”
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“Everyone knows how useful usefulness is, but no one seems to know how useful uselessness is.”
― Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries
― Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries
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