"Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling……" — Walker Percy
"Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral."
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85 Quotes by Walker Percy
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- Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.
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- In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.
- In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory.…
- What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like…
- Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he…
- It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness…
- The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.
- A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in…
- As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their…
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