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"I woke up this morning to continue reading like it was Christmas morning... the greatest story ever told with active, brilliant commentary and works of art that bring each verse to life. Word on Fire indeed!" — Nov 08, 2026 05:59AM
"I woke up this morning to continue reading like it was Christmas morning... the greatest story ever told with active, brilliant commentary and works of art that bring each verse to life. Word on Fire indeed!" — Nov 08, 2026 05:59AM
“If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.”
― Fear and Trembling
― Fear and Trembling
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― Paradise Lost
― Paradise Lost
“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.”
― Either - Or
― Either - Or
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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