"There were moments, usually on a sunny Easter morning, when she wished she could with sincerity call herself a Christian; but for the rest of the year she knew herself to be what she was--incurably agnostic but prone to unpredictable relapses into faith."

-An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James

“Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.” -Willa Sibert Cather ( Read more... )

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I can't believe in the God of my Fathers. If there is one Mind which understands all things, it will comprehend me in my unbelief. I don't know whose hand hung Hesperus in the sky, and fixed the Dog Star, and scattered the shining dust of Heaven, and fired the sun, and froze the darkness between the lonely worlds that spin in space.Gerald Kersh ( Read more... )

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Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken by the common man in centuries, he had all about him the ruins of language, evidence of toppled suburbs, grass growing among the mosaics, and voices ( Read more... )

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