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- It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all…
- But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
- To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that…
- Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a…
- Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in…
- Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.
- Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess…
- Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
- Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For…
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