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“You may remember, when I was talking about sexual morality, that the centre of Christian morals did not lie there. Well, now, we have come to the centre. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride... Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.”
― Mere Christianity. Illustrated
― Mere Christianity. Illustrated
“Here is the second sentence of Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror Famine: "We may perhaps put this in perspective in the present case by saying that in the actions here recorded about twenty human lives were lost for, not every word, but every letter, in this book." That sentence represents 3,040 lives. the book is 411 pages long.”
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“Femme Fatale: Haven't I seen you somewhere before?
Rigby Reardon: Maybe. I've been somewhere before.
~ "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid”
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Rigby Reardon: Maybe. I've been somewhere before.
~ "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid”
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“The weather had just become perfect; it was one of the dozen exquisite days of the English year — days stamped with a purity unknown in climates where fine weather is cheap.”
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“To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of Shakespeare, of the luminous wisdom of Goethe, actually passes into the personality of the reader; so that in contact with the chaos of ordinary life certain free and flowing outlines emerge, like the forms of some classic picture, endowing both people and things with a grandeur beyond what is visible to the superficial glance.”
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