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We can understand that the Fathers of the Church in the East wanted Apocalypse left out of the New Testament. But like Judas among the disciples, it was inevitable that it should be included. The Apocalypse is the feet of clay to the grand Christian image. And down crashes the image, on the weakness of these very feet. There is Jesus--but there is also John the Divine. There is Christian love--and there is Christian envy. The former would "save" the world--the latter will never be satisfied till it has destroyed the world. They are two sides of the same medal.

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It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.

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You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.

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I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun.

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We have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

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I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.

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The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring night. The magnificence of the watchful morning-star, that watches between the night and the day, the gleaming clue to the two opposites.

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I always feel as if I stood naked for the fire of Almighty God to go through me--and it's rather an awful feeling. One has to be so terribly religious to be an artist.

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Ah, then, upon my bedroom I do draw The blind to hide the garden, where the moon Enjoys the open blossoms as they straw Their beauty for his taking, boon for boon. And I do lift my aching arms to you, And I do lift my anguished, avid breast, And I do weep for very pain of you, And fling myself at the doors of sleep, for rest.

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When science starts to be interpretive it is more unscientific even than mysticism.

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A circle swoop, and a quick parabola under the bridge arches Where light pushes through; A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air. A dip to the water.

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America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.

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Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time, too.

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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

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I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

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The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely.

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The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of ultimate marriage--and there isn't anything else.

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One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.

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The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle wave-crests.... always the man who had died saw not the bird alone, but the short, sharp wave of life of which the bird was the crest.

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No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.

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