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“Le charme de la nouveaute , peu a' peu tombant comme un ve" t ement, laissait voir a' nu l'e ternelle monotonie de la passion, qui a toujours les me" mes formes et le me" me langage. The charm of novelty, falling little by little like a robe, revealed the eternal monotony of passion, which has always the same forms and the same language.”

Littles Form Fall Passion Language Eternal Charm Novelty Robes Monotony

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.. ...(they) express something real and existing in ourselves.”

Ifs Ideas Real Used Fall Known Eternal Myth Psychological Symbols Titles Recalls Antiquity Fall Back Something Real

Book:Mark Rothko

Source: Mark Rothko

“Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.”

Form Fall Sun Atheism Eternal Positive Atheism Lifts Atoms

Book:Lucretius on Life and Death: In the Metre of Omar Khayyam

Source: Lucretius on Life and Death: In the Metre of Omar Khayyam

“Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked back to the origins of life, to the foundations of culture, and to the deepest levels of the human mind. Myth was not concerned with practical matters, but with meaning. Unless we find some significance in our lives, we mortal men and women fall very easily into despair. The mythos of a society provided people with a context that made sense of their day-to-day lives; it directed their attention to the eternal and the universal.”

Source: The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism

“Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations in their minds, which have no other existence but barely being perceived, doubtless they would never fall down and worship their own ideas; but rather address their homage to that eternal invisible Mind which produces and sustains all things.”

Source: Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding

“O Eternal God, now may it please you to burn in love so that we become the limbs fashioned in the love you felt when you begot your Son at the first dawn before all creation. And consider this need which falls upon us, take it from us for the sake of your Son, and lead us to the joy of your salvation.”

Needs Firsts May God Joy Fall Felt Love You Creation Son Please Eternal Salvation Sake Dawn Limbs Your Son

Author:Hildegard of Bingen