Love is space and time made directly perceptible to the heart Proust
Les mer»We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill the gap. Proust
Les mer»The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city, where the lamps glimmered like carbuncles; and through the muffle and smother of these fallen clouds, the procession of the town’s life was still rolling in through the great arteries with a sound as of a mighty wind. Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr. Jekyll and […]
Les mer»Whether a prophet is true or false does not depend upon the correctness of his predictions. It depends upon the purity and sincerity of his concern for the things threatened by human sin and divine anger. Indeed his predictions are the more likely to be correct, the less he is a true prophet and the […]
Les mer»Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the pyche than skepticism. J. W. Goethe
Les mer»Love is not consolation, it is light. Simone Weil
Les mer»They began to come upon from time to time small cairns of rock by the roadside. They were signs in gypsy language, lost patterns. The first he’d seen in some while, common in the north, leading out of the looted and exhausted cities, hopeless messages to loved ones lost and dead. By then all stores […]
Les mer»And the wind shall say: «Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.» T.S. Eliot: The Rock (1934)
Les mer»Most indulgent Father, who dwellest in the height of heights, hear thou the vows of thy family, exiled here on earth, whom thou by thy ineffable kindness hast made worthy to be called thy children, and upon whom by the most precious gift of thy spirit thou hast bestowed a pledge, so that with reverent […]
Les mer»Francis was not impressed by the Crusaders, whose sacrilegious brutality horrified him. They were entirely too fond of taunting and abusing their prisoners of war, who were often returned to their families minus nose, lips, ears or eyes. In Francis’ view, judgment was the exclusive province of the all-merciful God; it was none of a […]
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