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Wiman articulating something I’ve always carried in my soul but can never quite say:
“And if you are not lonely under this dividing and indifferent blue, if you do not feel, even amid your moments of happiness, some absolute inwardness that is absolute otherness, then, friend, you are either preternaturally enlightened or completely unconscious.”
— Apr 24, 2024 09:48AM
“And if you are not lonely under this dividing and indifferent blue, if you do not feel, even amid your moments of happiness, some absolute inwardness that is absolute otherness, then, friend, you are either preternaturally enlightened or completely unconscious.”
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John Anders
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“A dear friend of mine whose [art] has come to nothing (publicly, that is) writes in a letter, "I remain loyal to the irrationality of it," which makes perfect piercing sense, because what else that most matters in life do we find and keep by way of reason? Love? God?”
― Christian Wiman
— Jul 21, 2024 04:14PM
― Christian Wiman
John Anders
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“I'm a Christian. Which means that I have faith. Or had it once, and with such enlivening force that to deny it now would be a denial of life itself.”
― Christian Wiman, Zero at the Bone, p. 92
— Apr 27, 2024 03:22AM
― Christian Wiman, Zero at the Bone, p. 92
