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Yew Hall

Book by Lucy M. Boston · 1 quotes · Artificiality, Cloister, Escape

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All Artificiality Cloister Escape Island Off The Grid Peace Silence Simplicity Solitude Timelessness

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“Every year that I live here it is as though another of my personalities is left behind, like a variation in a Passacaglia, leaving me nearer the first and last plain theme. It is not only that as one grows older the passions and vanities fade, nor that the pressure of the present day obliges one to live an ever simpler life, to make and to do with one's own hands whatever is necessary, to be forever saying goodbye to civilization. It is rather that civilization has turned to shoddy, plastic and sham, has become a cage with bars of cliché, so that one must get out. Here on my island the years have opened like a rose in the sun, the fury of standardization has missed one little byway, and events have remained in their real dimension as reactions of the human heart, limitless, yet dependent on its fleeting pulse.”

Peace Silence Solitude Simplicity Escape Timelessness Island Artificiality Cloister Off The Grid

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