“We all want reassurance that the love we crave is a love we can find, or that will find us.”
― Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God
― Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God
“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
― Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
― Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
“Precisely because we have embarked on the great and long venture of demolishing a world that has grown old and of rebuilding it authentically anew, i.e. historically, we must know the tradition. We must know more—i.e. our knowledge must be stricter and more binding—than all the epochs before us, even the most revolutionary. Only the most radical historical knowledge can make us aware of our extraordinary tasks and preserve us from a new wave of mere restoration and uncreative imitation.”
― Introduction to Metaphysics
― Introduction to Metaphysics
“Josh tasted the decaying leaves of autumn in the cold mountain air.”
― Down in the Valley
― Down in the Valley
“Is every thing right because the law allows it? Suppose they’d pass a law taking away your liberty and making you a slave?”
― Twelve Years A Slave
― Twelve Years A Slave
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