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“You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.”

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Ernest Dimnet

Ernest Dimnet, a French writer born in 1866 and died in 1954, is renowned for his works on religious and moral philosophy. His writings have been widely appreciated by readers. more

“Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.”

Ifs Men Humans Hands Form Winning Left Differences Brain Cutting Groups Victory Taste Creatures Members Essentials Fingers Defeat Various Bones Damage Left Hand Mutilation

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.”

Art Lying Values Art Is Weakness Clouds Grass Works Of Art Brotherhood Static Evanescence

Book:Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

“Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.”

Ifs Needs Wells Moments Age Fire Trouble Wine Glasses Wander Ease Traveler Good Day Grapes Drunkenness Rubies

Book:Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

“One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.”

People Thinking Believe Stills Reason Moving I Believe Half Broken Difficulty Affection Fixed Quantity Tides Going Out Allowance Friendship Broken

Author:Freya Stark

“If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.”

Ifs Thinking World Should Looks Faces Given Window Look Up Eastern

Author:Freya Stark

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