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"He wondered again at the easy, graceful manner in which the Roman lyricists accepted the fact of death, as if the nothingness they faced were a tribute to the richness of the years they had enjoyed: and he marvelled at the bitterness, the terror, and the barely concealed hatred he found in some of Christian poets of the Latin tradition..."
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It was a passion neither of the mind nor of the flesh; rather, it was a force that comprehended them both, as if they were but the matter of love, its specific substance. To a woman or a poem, it said simply: Look! I am alive.
— Feb 13, 2018 06:33AM
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"He saw good men go down into a slow decline of hopelessness, broken as their vision of a decent life was broken..."
— Feb 13, 2018 06:28AM
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"Now and again he became so caught by his enthusiasm that he stuttered, gesticulated, and ignored the lecture notes that usually guided his talks. At first he was disturbed by his outbursts..."
— Feb 13, 2018 06:24AM
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"He wondered again at the easy, graceful manner in which the Roman lyricists accepted the fact of death, as if the nothingness they faced were a tribute to the richness of the years they had enjoyed: and he marvelled at the bitterness, the terror, and the barely concealed hatred he found in some of Christian poets of the Latin tradition..."
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