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“Love makes men foolish. I speak as a victim myself. We are taken out of our own care and then it remains to be seen only if fate will show to us some share of mercy. Or little. Or none.”
― Cities of the Plain
― Cities of the Plain
“Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
David’s 2025 Year in Books
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