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The essence of their contention is that the laws of language would be violated if one should apply the word church to anything other than a congregation of religious people who convene in one specific locality.
“I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality.
-Claude Frollo ”
― The Hunchback of Notre Dame
-Claude Frollo ”
― The Hunchback of Notre Dame
“Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”
― The Hunchback of Notre Dame
― The Hunchback of Notre Dame
“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”
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“If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.”
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“Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change, for to be in time, means to change. Their nearest approach to constancy, therefore, is undulation--the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
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