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“Beauty cannot stay, nor endure-indeed, that a thing is and is gone next is part of what makes a thing beautiful. The preciousness of any beautiful thing-any good thing-lies in its scarcity. And because all things are scarce when measured against eternity and infinity, all things are beautiful—if seen at the right angle, if captured in the right light.”

Fml

Rahhhhhh

Just can’t help myself

Electric

Getting the best sermon on Jonah and the Whale from 1850 is a great way to open

it’s so good I could cry

I am so back

Fire

This ish is pretty fun

“For my part all those, resourceful sleuths and heroes offered a glimpse of a perfect world where morality worked the way it was meant to. Nobody in Doc Savage's world ever killed themselves except thwarted kamikaze assassins or enemy spies with cyanide capsules. Which world would you rather live in, if you had the choice?”

I love this book with my heart and soul

Been zeroed in on school reading but I’m trying to at least read a little everyday day for pleasure for my mental health

Wow.

I am almost there

This is amazing

“As violence reaches for him, Darrow does not flinch like a man; he reaches like a covetous river. He pulls violence to him, drinks it into his current, and leaps around the battlefield with a seemingly mindless capriciousness. Which, when inspected, illuminates the genius of his violence”.