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He had all sorts of sayings to cheer himself up with: ‘No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city’, and ‘Everything is as good or bad as our opinion makes it’.
We have made little use of the Fox’s teaching if we’re to be scared by death.
All my life the god of the Mountain has been wooing me. Oh, look up once at least before the end and wish me joy. I am going to my lover. Do you not see now—?’
To love, and to lose what we love, are equally things appointed for our nature. If we cannot bear the second well, that evil is ours.
But I was wrong to weep and beg and try to force you by your love. Love is not a thing to be so used.’
Why must holy places be dark places?
I ended my first book with the words no answer. I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words. Long did I hate you, long did I fear you.
