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“Religions . . . seem to avoid mountain passes.”

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Rory Stewart is a British academic known for his profound insights into history, politics, and culture. Born on January 3, 1973, he has a rich academic background and extensive field experience. more

“As we're leaving the King's Arms Hotel after Sunday lunch, I watch a beautiful white dove walking down the wet road. A car approaches and the bird accidentally turns into the wheel rather than away from it. A gentle crunch. The car passes. A shape like a discarded napkin left in the road. Still perfectly white, no red stains, but bearing no relation anymore to the shape of a bird. A trail of white feathers flutter down the road after the car. The suddeness is very upsetting. That gentle crunch.”

“Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)”

Produce Eternity Remains

Author:Boethius

“The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.”

Thinking Purpose Language Hurt Enemy Shadow Combat

Book:Studies in Words

Source: Studies in Words

“The look that passes between Jeffrey and Kimber right then feels like it requires a swell of cheesy music in the background. Aw, I think. Baby brother's in love. I also find this kind of gross.”

Thinking Feels Looks Kind Brother Baby Backgrounds Gross Cheesy

Book:Unearthly

Source: Unearthly

“O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever do before Death's knifeProvides the answer ultimate and appropriate?As I for my part felt in my heart as one who falls,Falls in a parachute, falls endlessly, and feels the vastDraft of the abyss sucking him down and down,An endlessly helplessly falling and appalled clown:This is the way the night passes by, thisIs the overnight endless trip to the famous unfathomable abyss.”

Way Feels Heart Done Night Fall Felt Answers Consciousness My Heart Lonely Ultimate Down And Endless Appropriate Abyss Clown Great Gifts Unfathomable Parachutes Before Death

Author:Delmore Schwartz

“WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The water lies broken, cracked from the wind. This great estuary is wide, endless. The river is brackish, blue with the cold. It passes beneath us blurring. The sea birds hang above it, they wheel, disappear. We flash the wide river, a dream of the past. The deeps fall behind, the bottom is paling the surface, we rush by the shallows, boats beached for winter, desolate piers. And on wings like the gulls, soar up, turn, look back.”

Source: Light Years

“What passes relentlessly through the years is blood, and time; all the bitterness or warmth along the way is almost incidental. Even blood gets forgotten eventually, bleached into myth which are bleached of all colour into ashes of myth.”

Way Years Blood Forgotten Myth Colour Bitterness Warmth Ashes Through The Years

Book:Isabelle the Navigator

Source: Isabelle the Navigator

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