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There was four times as much water as land on the globe: it would be enough if one-forth of our time and of our hearts were given to human affairs and the other three-quarters to—what? Nature, truth, God, call it what you will: that larger inhuman something that surrounded humanity, sustained it, and made it ridiculous.
— Jan 21, 2015 06:29PM
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There are so many things called love, and only one word for them all.
— Jan 26, 2015 11:04AM
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Perhaps there were no great events: a great event was a name for our ignorance of the little events which composed it.
— Jan 24, 2015 08:12PM
Roy Lotz
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Poetry, I say, is like spray blown by some wind from a heaving sea, or like sparks blown from a smouldering fire: a cry which the violence of circumstances wrings from some poor fellow.
— Jan 19, 2015 06:29PM
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Time often flatters the past by half-erasing it.
— Jan 14, 2015 10:04AM
Roy Lotz
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My dear pupil after all is an American; to him the past is foreign and dead. He is a boy, and the football matches at school seem more vital to him than the history of mankind.
— Jan 13, 2015 09:55AM
Roy Lotz
is on page 196 of 608
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences: our effort must be to resist the influence and improve the opportunity.
— Jan 11, 2015 09:11PM
Roy Lotz
is on page 175 of 608
... champagne evidently was just an artificial stimulus—how useless!—and a forced pleasure—how unpleasant!—only calculated to smother your reason in foolishness—how sickening!
— Jan 09, 2015 09:46AM
Roy Lotz
is on page 159 of 608
I have been a victim of my environment: but I have not surrendered to it. I have surrendered only to my own limitations.
— Jan 08, 2015 11:03AM
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Peter Alden disliked writing letters. One had so often to invent the sentiments one was obliged to express: and those conventional beginnings and endings annoyed him, and made him feel like a fool.
— Jan 07, 2015 10:46AM
Roy Lotz
is on page 122 of 608
What is there in the universe more fascinating than running water, and the possibility of moving over it? What better image of existence and possible triumph?
— Jan 06, 2015 10:14AM
