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title: "56 Fig Tree Quotes by 44 authors"
description: "Browse 56 Fig Tree quotes by 44 authors. Discover the best Fig Tree sayings and thoughts."
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> [A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-smiles/a-fig-tree-looking-on-a-fig-tree-becometh-fruitful-says-the-arabian/)

[Samuel Smiles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-smiles/)

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> [The fig tree is known as the 'hypocrite tree.' It looks mature & ripe from far away, but its looks can be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-fig-tree-is-known-as-the-hypocrite-tree-it-looks-mature-ripe-from/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-louis-cole/our-lord-never-condemned-the-fig-tree-because-it-brought-forth-so/)

[Edwin Louis Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-louis-cole/)

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> [“Every one follows his own bent. Man is like a tree. You’ve never quarrelled with a fig tree because it doesn’t bear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikos-kazantzakis/every-one-follows-his-own-bent-man-is-like-a-tree-you-ve-never/)

[Nikos Kazantzakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikos-kazantzakis/)

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> [“After Elner Shimfissle accidentally poked that wasps’ nest up in her fig tree, the last thing she remembered was thinking “Uh-oh.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-flagg/after-elner-shimfissle-accidentally-poked-that-wasps-nest-up-in-her/)

[Fannie Flagg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-flagg/)

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> [Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/train-up-a-fig-tree-in-the-way-it-should-go-and-when-you-are-old-sit/)

[Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/)

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> [“Then I woke in the shade of the fig tree in my favorite park, with the gun barrel in my mouth.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cari-silverwood/then-i-woke-in-the-shade-of-the-fig-tree-in-my-favorite-park-with-the/)

[Cari Silverwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cari-silverwood/)

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> [I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/i-ask-you-is-it-the-fig-tree-s-fault-that-it-s-not-the-season-for/)

[Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/)

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> [Matthew 21:21 Jesus replied, I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jesus/matthew-21-21-jesus-replied-i-tell-you-the-truth-if-you-have-faith/)

[Jesus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jesus/)

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> [Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/fig-tree-how-long-it-s-been-full-meaning-for-me-the-way-you-almost/)

[Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/)

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> [“Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/though-the-fig-tree-should-not-blossom-nor-fruit-be-on-the-vines-the/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The story of the cursing of the fig tree is important for us today, for as the Jews of Jesus' time were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-d-huntsman/the-story-of-the-cursing-of-the-fig-tree-is-important-for-us-today/)

[Eric D. Huntsman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-d-huntsman/)

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> [“Though the fig tree may not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines; though the flock may be cut off from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-t-blackaby/though-the-fig-tree-may-not-blossom-nor-fruit-be-on-the-vines-though/)

[Henry T. Blackaby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-t-blackaby/)

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> [“I don't know what I ate, but I felt immensely better after the first mouthful. It occurred to me that my vision…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-don-t-know-what-i-ate-but-i-felt-immensely-better-after-the-first/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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> [Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bible/hearken-not-to-hezekiah-for-thus-saith-the-king-of-assyria-make-an/)

[Bible](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bible/)

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> [“I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-saw-myself-sitting-in-the-crotch-of-this-fig-tree-starving-to-death/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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> [Your constitution guarantees to every citizen, even the humblest, the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property. It promises to all, religious freedom,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-smith-jr/your-constitution-guarantees-to-every-citizen-even-the-humblest-the/)

[Joseph Smith, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-smith-jr/)

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> [Toward seven o'clock every morning, I leave my study and step Out on the bright terrace; the sun already burns resplendent Between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/toward-seven-o-clock-every-morning-i-leave-my-study-and-step-out-on/)

[Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/)

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> [“We'll act as if all this were a bad dream." A bad dream. To the person in the bell jar, blank and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/we-ll-act-as-if-all-this-were-a-bad-dream-a-bad-dream-to-the-person/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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> [ “I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. \[...\] I saw myself sitting in… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-saw-my-life-branching-out-before-me-like-the-green-fig-tree-in-the-2/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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> [“If the fig tree didn’t blossom and there was no fruit on the vine, there would be no food to eat. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-altrogge/if-the-fig-tree-didn-t-blossom-and-there-was-no-fruit-on-the-vine/)

[Stephen Altrogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-altrogge/)

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> [“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/to-the-person-in-the-bell-jar-blank-and-stopped-as-a-dead-baby-the/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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> [“My beloved speaks and says to me: Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away; for now the winter is past,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-robson/my-beloved-speaks-and-says-to-me-arise-my-love-my-fair-one-and-come/)

Jennifer Robson

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> [“I want to see a flowering of Arab and Jewish cultures in a country without racism or anti-Semitism, without rich or poor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aurora-levins-morales/i-want-to-see-a-flowering-of-arab-and-jewish-cultures-in-a-country/)

[Aurora Levins Morales](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aurora-levins-morales/)

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> [“JAMES HALE sat at a side-street noodle-stall. The stall was set-up underneath the shade of a row of fruit trees. He watched…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-a-newman/james-hale-sat-at-a-side-street-noodle-stall-the-stall-was-set-up/)

[James A. Newman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-a-newman/)

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> [“JESUS & THE WEATHER I don't think Jesus Who is Our Lord would have liked the weather in Limerick because it's always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-mccourt/jesus-the-weather-i-don-t-think-jesus-who-is-our-lord-would-have/)

[Frank McCourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-mccourt/)

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> [“Ohh,' said the girl with a sad tilt of her head. It was a response Sejal would hear a lot in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-rex/ohh-said-the-girl-with-a-sad-tilt-of-her-head-it-was-a-response-sejal/)

[Adam Rex](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-rex/)

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> [“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-saw-my-life-branching-out-before-me-like-the-green-fig-tree-in-the/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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> [“In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/in-the-shade-of-the-house-in-the-sunshine-of-the-riverbank-near-the-2/)

[Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/)

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> [“Lamentations about the tribulations of public life, followed by celebrations of the bucolic splendor of retirement to rural solitude, had become a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-j-ellis/lamentations-about-the-tribulations-of-public-life-followed-by/)

[Joseph J. Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-j-ellis/)

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> [“But he, Siddhartha, was not a source of joy for himself, he found no delight in himself. Walking the rosy paths of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/but-he-siddhartha-was-not-a-source-of-joy-for-himself-he-found-no/)

[Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/)

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> [“My father was a man of iron will. He had a red beard and eyes like caves. He married my mother sensibly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-nye/my-father-was-a-man-of-iron-will-he-had-a-red-beard-and-eyes-like/)

Robert Nye

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> [“It was better to die, like Eugénie and Digby, in the prime of life with all one's faculties about one. But he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/it-was-better-to-die-like-eug-nie-and-digby-in-the-prime-of-life-with/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [“To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aldous-huxley/to-be-shaken-out-of-the-ruts-of-ordinary-perception-to-be-shown-for-a-2/)

[Aldous Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aldous-huxley/)

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> [“According to the gospels, Christ healed diseases, cast out devils, rebuked the sea, cured the blind, fed multitudes with five loaves and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-g-ingersoll/according-to-the-gospels-christ-healed-diseases-cast-out-devils/)

[Robert G. Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-g-ingersoll/)

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> [“Romance Sonambulo" Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship out on the sea and the horse on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/federico-garc-a-lorca/romance-sonambulo-green-how-i-want-you-green-green-wind-green/)

[Federico García Lorca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/federico-garc-a-lorca/)

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> [“The fig tree had dropped its fruit all over the ground. Ripe figs lay in the dust, exploded, bloody, as if the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rupert-thomson/the-fig-tree-had-dropped-its-fruit-all-over-the-ground-ripe-figs-lay/)

[Rupert Thomson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rupert-thomson/)

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> [When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-lindsey/when-the-jewish-people-after-nearly-2-000-years-of-exile-under/)

[Hal Lindsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-lindsey/)

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> [Poor Fred - he's actually working on a typo, and somebody ought to tell him. Twice in the New Testament Jesus withered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thom-hartmann/poor-fred-he-s-actually-working-on-a-typo-and-somebody-ought-to-tell/)

[Thom Hartmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thom-hartmann/)

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> [I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-washington/i-am-once-more-seated-under-my-own-vine-and-fig-tree-and-hope-to/)

[George Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-washington/)

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                        "text": "“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream. A bad dream. I remembered everything. I remembered the cadavers and Doreen and the story of the fig tree and Marco's diamond and the sailor on the Common and Doctor Gordon's wall-eyed nurse and the broken thermometer and the Negro with his two kinds of beans and the twenty pounds I gained on insulin and the rock that bulged between sky and sea like a gray skull. Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.”",
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                        "text": "“My beloved speaks and says to me: Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away; for now the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtle dove is heard in our land. The fig tree puts forth its figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give forth fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.”",
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                        "text": "“I want to see a flowering of Arab and Jewish cultures in a country without racism or anti-Semitism, without rich or poor or spat-upon: everyone beneath the vine and fig tree living in peace and unafraid. A homeland for each and every one of us between the mountains and the sea. A multilingual, multireligious, many-colored and -peopled land where the orange tree blooms for all. I will not surrender this vision for any lesser compromise.”",
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                        "text": "“JAMES HALE sat at a side-street noodle-stall. The stall was set-up underneath the shade of a row of fruit trees. He watched a pair of pigeons courting beneath a fig tree. The male’s tail feathers were pushed up in self-promotion and his plumage was arrogantly puffed up. He danced his elaborate dance of love. The female didn’t look impressed. She turned her back to him. Birds were like gangster rappers, Hale thought. They sang songs about how tough they were and how many other birds they’d nested. They were egomaniacs with inferiority complexes. Posers in a leafy street. The bastards flew at the first sign of danger. They couldn’t make it on the ground. Hale hated birds with their merry chirps and their flimsy nests. Tweet. Tweet. Fucking. Tweet. The only thing Hale admired about them was the fact that they could fly. That would be cool. Right now, flying would be good.”",
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                        "text": "“JESUS & THE WEATHER I don't think Jesus Who is Our Lord would have liked the weather in Limerick because it's always raining and the Shannon keeps the whole city damp. My father says the Shannon is a killer river because it killed my two brothers. When you look at pictures of Jesus He's always wandering around ancient Israel in a sheet. It never rains there and you never hear of anyone coughing or getting consumption or anything like that and no one has a job there because all they do is stand around and eat manna and shake their fists and go to crucifixions. Anytime Jesus got hungry all He had to do was go up the road to a fig tree or an orange tree and have His fill. If He wanted a pint He could wave His hand over a big glass and there was the pint. Or He could visit Mary Magdalene and her sister, Martha, and they'd give Him His dinner no questions asked and He'd get his feet washed and dried with Mary Magdalene's hair while Martha washed the dishes, which I don't think is fair. Why should she have to wash the dishes while her sister sits out there chatting away with Our Lord? It's a good thing Jesus decided to be born Jewish in that warm place because if he was born in Limerick he'd catch the consumption and be dead in a month and there wouldn't be any Catholic Church and there wouldn't be any Communion or Confirmation and we wouldn't have to learn the catechism and write compositions about Him. The End.”",
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                        "text": "“Ohh,' said the girl with a sad tilt of her head. It was a response Sejal would hear a lot in the following weeks and which she would eventully come to understand meant, 'Ohh, India , that must be so hard for you, and I know because I read this book over the summer called The Fig Tree (which is actually set in Pakistan but I don't realize there's a difference) about a girl whose parents sell her to a sandal maker because everyone's poor and they don't care about girls there, and I bet that's why you're in our country even, and now everyone's probably being mean to you just because of 9/11, but not me although I'll still be watching you a little too closely on the bus later because what if you're just here to kill Americans?' There was a lot of information encoded in that one vowel sound, so Sejal missed most of it at first.”",
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                        "text": "“Lamentations about the tribulations of public life, followed by celebrations of the bucolic splendor of retirement to rural solitude, had become a familiar, even formulaic, posture within the leadership class of the revolutionary generation, especially within the Virginia dynasty. Everyone knew the classical models of latter-day seclusion represented by Cincinnatus and described by Cicero and Virgil. Declarations of principled withdrawal from the hurly-burly of politics to the natural rhythms of one’s fields or farms had become rhetorical rituals. If Washington’s retirement hymn featured the “vine and fig tree,” Jefferson’s idolized “my family, my farm, and my books.” The motif had become so commonplace that John Adams, an aspiring Cicero himself, claimed that the Virginians had worn out the entire Ciceronian syndrome: “It seems the Mode of becoming great is to retire,” he wrote Abigail in 1796. “It is marvellous how political Plants grow in the shade.” Washington”",
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                        "text": "“But he, Siddhartha, was not a source of joy for himself, he found no delight in himself. Walking the rosy paths of the fig tree garden, sitting in the bluish shade of the grove of contemplation, washing his limbs daily in the bath of repentance, sacrificing in the dim shade of the mango forest, his gestures of perfect decency, everyone's love and joy, he still lacked all joy in his heart. Dreams and restless thoughts came into his mind, flowing from the water of the river, sparkling from the stars of the night, melting from the beams of the sun, dreams came to him and a restlessness of the soul, fuming from the sacrifices, breathing forth from the verses of the Rig-Veda, being infused into him, drop by drop, from the teachings of the old Brahmans.”",
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                        "text": "“My father was a man of iron will. He had a red beard and eyes like caves. He married my mother sensibly for the triple joy of her widowhood, the three estates, but he was concerned - as an English country gentleman and an epitome of the chivalric virtues - with the making of a son. Having heard well of the giant's child-inspiring powers, my father takes my mother by the hand and leads her up to him the night before their wedding. It had been a hot day, the hottest day that any man could remember, the skylarks swooning in the sticky air, milk turning sour in the cows' udders. At the end of that hottest day now it is suddenly Midsummer Eve and the giant stands out bold and wonderful and monstrous on his long green Dorset hill, the moon at the full above his knobbled club. My father lays my mother down on the giant's thistle, in the modest shade of Mr Wiclif's burgeoning fig tree. 'Dear hart,' he says, taking off his spurs and his liripipe hat, 'I shall require an heir.' If ever widow woman blushed then my mother blushed hot when she saw my father unbuttoned above her in the moonlight. 'My womb,' she says, 'is empty.' My father engages the key in the lock. It is well-oiled. He turns and enters and makes himself at home. 'I have been told,' he says, 'that any true woman,' he says, 'childless,' he adds, 'who lies,' he says, 'on the Cerne giant, - my father takes a shuddering juddering breath - 'conceives without fail,' he explains. My father goes on, without need of saying. It is sixty yards if it is an inch from the top to the toe of the giant of Cerne Abbas. The creature's club alone must be every bit of forty yards. 'O Gog,' says my mother eventually. 'O Gog, O Gog, O Gog.' 'I do believe,' says my father, 'Magog.' Now, in the moment of my conception, as a star falls into my mother's left eye, as the wind catches its breath, as the little hills skip for joy, and the moon hides her face behind a cloud - a bit of local history. When St Augustine came calling in those parts the people of Cerne tied a tail to his coat and whipped him out of their valley. The saint was furious. He got down on his knees and prayed to God to give tails to all the children that were born in Dorset. 'Right,' said the Omnipotence. This went on, tails, tails, tails, tails, until the folk regretted their pagan manners. When they expressed their regret, St Austin came back and founded the abbey, calling it Cernal because he was soon seeing his visions there - from the Latin, 'cerno', I see, and the Hebrew, 'El, God. That's enough history. I prefer mystery.”",
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                        "text": "“It was better to die, like Eugénie and Digby, in the prime of life with all one's faculties about one. But he wasn't like that, she thought, glancing at the press cuttings. 'A man of singularly handsome presence... shot, fished, and played golf.' No, not like that in the least. He had been a curious man; weak; sensitive; liking titles; liking pictures; and often depressed, she guessed , by his wife's exuberance. She pushed the cuttings away and took up her book. It was odd how different the same person seemed to two different people, she thought. There was Martin, liking Eugénie; and she, liking Digby. She began to read. She had always wanted to know about Christianity - how it began; what it meant, originally. God is love, The kingdom of Heaven is within us, sayings like that she thought, turning over the pages, what did they mean? The actual words were very beautiful. But who said them - when? Then the spout of the tea-kettle puffed steam at her and she moved it away. The wind was rattling the windows in the back room; it was bending the little bushes; they still had no leaves on them. It was what a man said under a fig tree, on a hill, she thought. And then another man wrote it down. But suppose that what that man says is just as false as what this man - she touched the press cuttings with her spoon - says about Digby? And here I am, she thought, looking at the china in the Dutch cabinet, in this drawing-room, getting a little spark from what someone said all those years ago - here it comes (the china was changing from blue to livid) skipping over all those mountains, all those seas. She found her place and began to read.”",
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                        "text": "“To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large – thus an experience of inestimable value to everyone and especially to the intellectual. For the intellectual is by definition the man for whom, in Goethe’s phrase, ‘the word is essentially fruitful.’ He is the man who feels that ‘what we perceive by the eye is foreign to us as such and need not impress us deeply.’ And yet, though himself an intellectual and one of the supreme masters of language, Goethe did not always agree with his own evaluation of the word. ‘We talk,’ he wrote in middle life, ‘far too much. We should talk less and draw more. I personally should like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic Nature, communicate everything I have to say in sketches. That fig tree, this little snake, the cocoon on my window sill quietly awaiting its future – all these are momentous signatures. A person able to decipher their meaning properly would soon be able to dispense with the written or the spoken word altogether. The more I think of it, there is something futile, mediocre, even (I am tempted to say) foppish about speech. By contrast, how the gravity of Nature and her silence startle you, when you stand face to face with her, undistracted, before a barren ridge or in the desolation of the ancient hills.’ We can never dispense with language and the other symbol systems; for it is by means of them, and only by their means, that we have raised ourselves above the brutes, to the level of human beings. But we can easily become the victims as well as the beneficiaries of these systems. We must learn how to handle words effectively; but at the same time we must preserve and, if necessary, intensify our ability to look at the world directly and not through that half-opaque medium of concepts, which distorts every given fact into the all too familiar likeness of some generic label or explanatory abstraction. Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of transforming children into fully developed adults, it turns out students of the natural sciences who are completely unaware of Nature as the primary fact of experience, it inflicts upon the world students of the Humanities who know nothing of humanity, their own or anyone else’s.”",
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                        "text": "“According to the gospels, Christ healed diseases, cast out devils, rebuked the sea, cured the blind, fed multitudes with five loaves and two fishes, walked on the sea, cursed a fig tree, turned water into wine and raised the dead. How is it possible to substantiate these miracles? The Jews, among whom they were said to have been performed, did not believe them. The diseased, the palsied, the leprous, the blind who were cured, did not become followers of Christ. Those that were raised from the dead were never heard of again. Can we believe that Christ raised the dead? A widow living in Nain is following the body of her son to the tomb. Christ halts the funeral procession and raises the young man from the dead and gives him back to the arms of his mother. This young man disappears. He is never heard of again. No one takes the slightest interest in the man who returned from the realm of death. Luke is the only one who tells the story. Maybe Matthew, Mark and John never heard of it, or did not believe it and so failed to record it. John says that Lazarus was raised from the dead. It was more wonderful than the raising of the widow’s son. He had not been laid in the tomb for days. He was only on his way to the grave, but Lazarus was actually dead. He had begun to decay. Lazarus did not excite the least interest. No one asked him about the other world. No one inquired of him about their dead friends. When he died the second time no one said: “He is not afraid. He has traveled that road twice and knows just where he is going.” We do not believe in the miracles of Mohammed, and yet they are as well attested as this. We have no confidence in the miracles performed by Joseph Smith, and yet the evidence is far greater, far better. If a man should go about now pretending to raise the dead, pretending to cast out devils, we would regard him as insane. What, then, can we say of Christ? If we wish to save his reputation we are compelled to say that he never pretended to raise the dead; that he never claimed to have cast out devils. We must take the ground that these ignorant and impossible things were invented by zealous disciples, who sought to deify their leader. In those ignorant days these falsehoods added to the fame of Christ. But now they put his character in peril and belittle the authors of the gospels. Christianity cannot live in peace with any other form of faith. If that religion be true, there is but one savior, one inspired book, and but one little narrow grass-grown path that leads to heaven. Why did he not again enter the temple and end the old dispute with demonstration? Why did he not confront the Roman soldiers who had taken money to falsely swear that his body had been stolen by his friends? Why did he not make another triumphal entry into Jerusalem? Why did he not say to the multitude: “Here are the wounds in my feet, and in my hands, and in my side. I am the one you endeavored to kill, but death is my slave”? Simply because the resurrection is a myth. The miracle of the resurrection I do not and cannot believe. We know nothing certainly of Jesus Christ. We know nothing of his infancy, nothing of his youth, and we are not sure that such a person ever existed. There was in all probability such a man as Jesus Christ. He may have lived in Jerusalem. He may have been crucified; but that he was the Son of God, or that he was raised from the dead, and ascended bodily to heaven, has never been, and, in the nature of things, can never be, substantiated.”",
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                        "text": "“Romance Sonambulo\" Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship out on the sea and the horse on the mountain. With the shade around her waist she dreams on her balcony, green flesh, her hair green, with eyes of cold silver. Green, how I want you green. Under the gypsy moon, all things are watching her and she cannot see them. Green, how I want you green. Big hoarfrost stars come with the fish of shadow that opens the road of dawn. The fig tree rubs its wind with the sandpaper of its branches, and the forest, cunning cat, bristles its brittle fibers. But who will come? And from where? She is still on her balcony green flesh, her hair green, dreaming in the bitter sea. —My friend, I want to trade my horse for her house, my saddle for her mirror, my knife for her blanket. My friend, I come bleeding from the gates of Cabra. —If it were possible, my boy, I’d help you fix that trade. But now I am not I, nor is my house now my house. —My friend, I want to die decently in my bed. Of iron, if that’s possible, with blankets of fine chambray. Don’t you see the wound I have from my chest up to my throat? —Your white shirt has grown thirsty dark brown roses. Your blood oozes and flees a round the corners of your sash. But now I am not I, nor is my house now my house. —Let me climb up, at least, up to the high balconies; Let me climb up! Let me, up to the green balconies. Railings of the moon through which the water rumbles. Now the two friends climb up, up to the high balconies. Leaving a trail of blood. Leaving a trail of teardrops. Tin bell vines were trembling on the roofs. A thousand crystal tambourines struck at the dawn light. Green, how I want you green, green wind, green branches. The two friends climbed up. The stiff wind left in their mouths, a strange taste of bile, of mint, and of basil My friend, where is she—tell me— where is your bitter girl? How many times she waited for you! How many times would she wait for you, cool face, black hair, on this green balcony! Over the mouth of the cistern the gypsy girl was swinging, green flesh, her hair green, with eyes of cold silver. An icicle of moon holds her up above the water. The night became intimate like a little plaza. Drunken “Guardias Civiles” were pounding on the door. Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship out on the sea. And the horse on the mountain.”",
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                        "text": "When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put forth its first leaves. Jesus said that this would indicate that He was 'at the door,' ready to return.",
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                        "text": "Poor Fred - he's actually working on a typo, and somebody ought to tell him. Twice in the New Testament Jesus withered fig trees, Isaiah withered a fig tree, and there's another place in the Old Testament - I think it-s in Psalms - where a fig tree was withered. God hates figs, not fags!",
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