“When you painted on earth – at least in your earlier days – it was because you caught glimpses of heaven in the earthly landscape. The success of your painting was that it enabled others to see the glimpses too.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“Individuality can only be valuable when it is not individuality for its own sake but individuality for the human community.”
― Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
― Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
“Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from the love of the thing he tells, to the love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was duty. I worked—and behold, duty was joy.”
― Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
― Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
Reading Classics, Chronologically Through the Ages
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This group began with a book called The Well-Educated Mind (TWEM) by Susan Wise Bauer, which is a wonderful guide to “The Great Books.” TWEM presents ...more
Camille’s 2025 Year in Books
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