New Rome will be destroyed By the attacks of new vandals. God always remains silent.
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Dejan Stojanovic
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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Marcus Aurelius
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of...
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Winston S. Churchill
The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom more or less imply that beyond the dark void lies immortality. But for the ancients that ‘black hole’ is infinity itself; their dreams loom and vanish...
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Flaubert Gustave
Look at their arts, their power of turning stone into lifelike figures, and above all, the way in which they can transfer their thoughts to white leaves, so that others, many many years hence, can read them and know all that was passing, and what...
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G.A. Henty
More Quotes By Caleb Crain
But what are they?” Annie asked.“ An omphalos, probably, ” said Jacob.“A what, dear?” Melinda asked.“ A bellybutton of the world.”“ I didn’t know it had one.
— I’m going to be a writer, he reminded Milo.— And you won’t need literature?— I’ll write my own.
By its nature a relationship was not an accomplishment. It was just a connection that happened to exist, for as long as it did exist.
Since he had given up men he had taken up geography. He visited a new sight or a new neighborhood nearly every weekend.
He was in the flow of time now. He was in a story.
