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“This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.”

Littles Done Passion Literature Effects Eternal Ill Enthusiasm Paradox Null

Book:Style: The Art of Writing Well

Source: Style: The Art of Writing Well

“Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal and omnipresent and always attractive to kids.”

May Seems Kids Form Literature Fantasy Eternal Weakness Attractive Realism Sophisticated

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.”

Literature Individual Effort Existence Eternal Eternity Individuality Justify Bondage Totalitarianism Totalitarian Regimes

Book:The Ordeal of Change

Source: The Ordeal of Change

“Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres obsess upon so-called eternal verities, SF deals with the possibility that our children may have different problems. They may, indeed, be different than we have been.”

People May Children Has Beens Different Problem Literature Deals Fiction Possibility Eternal Our Children Science Fiction Genre Exploration

Author:David Brin

“Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.”

World Humans Spirit Time Literature Animal Half Eternal Eternal Love Screwtape Letters Amphibians

Book:Joyful Christian

Source: Joyful Christian

“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.”

Art Literature Half Eternal Fleeting Modernity Modernism Transient One Half

Book:Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists

Source: Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists

“How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.”

World Happiness Literature Forget Eternal Sunshine Obscurity Chastity Eternal Happiness Blameless Happy Sunshine Eternal Beauty Eternal Sunshine

Author:Alexander Pope

“As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Done Life Is Literature Friendship Our Lives Eternal Decided Pointless Friendship With God

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive.”

Life Is Literature Struggle Eternal

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.”

Ifs Life Is Choices Literature Eternal Survival Eternal Life Our Choices

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not for literature. It grants us what nature does not: a golden time that doesn't rust, a springtime that never wilts, cloudless happiness and eternal youth. [my translation]”

Doe Would Be Literature Youth Eternal Constant Endure Wounds Golden Grants Translations Heartbeat Bleeding Springtime Rust Eternal Youth

Author:Ludwig Borne

“If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7

“There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?”

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Book:Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

“The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true.”

People Ifs Believe Soul Spiritual Life Is Spirituality Literature Understanding Religious Eternal Thirds Claims

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

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