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I suppose all that stuff about infinity and eternity means that you think you are justified in doing anything—absolutely anything—here and now, on the off chance that some creatures or other descended from man as we know him may crawl about
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“You spoke yesterday, Lady, of clinging to the old good instead of taking the good that came.” “Yes—for a few heartbeats.” “There was an eldil who clung longer—who has been clinging since before the worlds were made.” “But the old good would cease to be a good at all if he did that.” “Yes. It has ceased. And still he clings.”
― Perelandra
― Perelandra
“The best poetry, then, comes in the roughest speech?” “Perhaps,” said the pfifltrigg. “As the best pictures are made in the hardest stone.”
― Out of the Silent Planet
― Out of the Silent Planet
“On the contrary, it is words that are vague. The reason why the thing can’t be expressed is that it’s too definite for language.”
― Perelandra
― Perelandra
“I suppose all that stuff about infinity and eternity means that you think you are justified in doing anything—absolutely anything—here and now, on the off chance that some creatures or other descended from man as we know him may crawl about a few centuries longer in some part of the universe.”
― Out of the Silent Planet
― Out of the Silent Planet
“I realised that the search for the Knowledge has encouraged us to think of the House as if it were a sort of riddle to be unravelled, a text to be interpreted, and that if ever we discover the Knowledge, then it will be as if the Value has been wrested from the House and all that remains will be mere scenery. The sight of the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall in the Moonlight made me see how ridiculous that is. The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to an end.”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
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