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“Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose.”

Book:Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir

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Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir

This book is a personal narrative that delves into the author's experiences with solitude, offering insights into the human condition and the complexities of personal identity. more

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Doris Grumbach

Doris Grumbach is an American novelist born on July 12, 1918. Her works are known for their delicate emotional descriptions and profound insights into social issues. more

“The life of any one can by no means be changed after death; an evil life can in no wise be converted into a good life, or an infernal into an angelic life: because every spirit, from head to foot, is of the character of his love, and therefore, of his life; and to convert this life into its opposite, would be to destroy the spirit utterly.”

Mean Character Would Be Spirit Evil Change Wise Feet Changed Opposites This Life Good Life His Love After Death Angelic

Book:A Compendium of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

Source: A Compendium of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

“Men live a moral life, either from regard to the Diving Being, or from regard to the opinion of the people in the world; and when a moral life is practised out of regard to the Divine Being, it is a spiritual life. Both appear alike in their outward form; but in their inward, they are completely different. The one saves a man, but the other does not; for he that leads a moral life out of regard to the Divine Being is led by him, but he who does so from regard to the opinion of people in the world is led by himself.”

People Men World Doe Different Spiritual Form Life Is Night Moral Opinion Divine Regard Spiritual Life Inward Good Night Diving Moral Life

Author:Emanuel Swedenborg

“Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.”

Years Wells Children Ends Might Literature Term Dark Week Unhappiness Tunnels Thirteen Light At The End Of The Tunnel End Of The Tunnel

Author:Graham Greene

“Man is so created that as to his internal he cannot die; for he is capable of believing in God, and thus of being conjoined to God by faith and love, and to be conjoined to God is to live to eternity.”

Men Believe Dies Capable And Love Eternity Immortality Internals Believe In God Faith And Love

Book:The gospel according to Mark

Source: The gospel according to Mark

“Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.”

Persons Acting Office Charity Employment Engaged

Book:The True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New Church, Foretold by the Lord in Daniel, VII, 13, 14, and in the Apocalypse, XXI. 1,2. Translated from the Latin

Source: The True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New Church, Foretold by the Lord in Daniel, VII, 13, 14, and in the Apocalypse, XXI. 1,2. Translated from the Latin

“Every one may know that to will and not to do, when there is opportunity, is in reality not to will; and that to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it. Will, which stops short of action, and love, which does not do the good that is loved, is a mere thought separate from will and love, which vanishes and comes to nothing.”

Knows May Doe Reality Action Opportunity And Love Mere Deeds

Author:Emanuel Swedenborg

“A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.”

Men Stills Spiritual Death Natural Nevertheless After Death

Book:Conjugial Love and Its Chaste Delights: Also, Adulterous Love and Its Sinful Pleasures

Source: Conjugial Love and Its Chaste Delights: Also, Adulterous Love and Its Sinful Pleasures

“Goodness and love mould the form into their own image, and cause the joy and beauty of love to shine forth from every part of the face.”

Faces Form Joy Causes Goodness And Love Shining Mould

Author:Emanuel Swedenborg

“The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.”

Right Now Old Days Good Old Days