Gina

“One might well conceive all of human history as the story of humankind's journey from beauty lost to beauty gradually sought and regained. Never, over the centuries, has the human need for beauty been extinguished...Art, somehow removed from the practical demands of everyday life, reveals that our kinship is not with the biological world only; it is also with the spiritual world.”
― Irina Yazykova, Hidden and Triumphant: The Underground Struggle to Save Russian Iconography

“The longer we remain isolated in a period of liberty, the harder it will be to find one another in a time of persecution.”
― Rod Dreher, Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents

“You can’t go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley: In Search of America

“A book that is made up of only great sentences is not necessarily a great book.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana