Alison Marlowe
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“For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
― Fear and Trembling
― Fear and Trembling
“Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still.”
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“If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?”
― Fear and Trembling
― Fear and Trembling
“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”
― Areopagitica
― Areopagitica
“We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
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