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“…a year passes quickly and changes its moods; the end rarely matches the spirit it starts in...”

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“All ripens, then rots, that sprang in such hope. So the year passes on through its series of yesterdays, and winter comes round again, as nature demands, ever the same.”

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“When you say the name of Khezr (or Khadir) in company you should always add the greeting "Salaam aliekum!" since he may be there - immortal and anonymous, engaged on some mysterious karmic errand. Perhaps he'll hint of his identity by wearing green, or by revealing knowledge of the occult and hidden. But he's something of a spy, and if you have no need to know he's unlikely to tell you. Still, one of his functions is to convince skeptics of the existence of the marvelous, to rescue those who are lost in deserts of doubt and dryness. So he's needed now more than ever, and surely still moves among us playing his great game.”

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Book:Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam

Source: Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam

“I can't see how anything can ever happen to us — I mean, I feel as if, if we leave this place, we shall crumble to pieces.”

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Book:The Green Knight

Source: The Green Knight

“She's also in love with the 'Polish Rider'." "Who's he?" "A picture by Rembrandt.”

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Book:The Green Knight

Source: The Green Knight

“Over the bed hung the picture of her beloved, the Polish Rider. He was looking, with his authoritative pensive mouth and his calm wide-apart eyes, past Moy, over her left shoulder and away into some vast distance. He was a knight upon a quest. He was brave, innocent, chaste, good.”

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Book:The Green Knight

Source: The Green Knight

“Our planet is a freak which we shall destroy by our own wicked senseless activities in the next century. Our history will very soon come to an end. Now that God is dead, we are at last presented with the truth, yes, the truth remains, but it is on a short lead. Anyway, we are nothing and it matters not what we do.”

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Book:The Green Knight

Source: The Green Knight

“Was this strange mode of life to go on and on?”

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“He lay on his back listening to his mother's quiet snoring and thinking how increasingly awful his life was becoming. It was as if he were being squeezed out of the world.”

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Book:The Green Knight

Source: The Green Knight

“You just seem to have folded up the future." "It is folded up.”

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Book:The Green Knight

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“Love is no destruction, but rather instruction, nourishment and sustenance for those who trust in it, for Love is repletion and the abyss and the fullness of the sea.”

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Book:Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls

Source: Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls