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""But the truth is that the curtain rises upon the play already in progress. In one sense it is a true paradox that there was history before there was history.... Very probably it was exceedingly like the history we do know, except in the one detail that we do not know it.... In other words, our most ancient records only reach back to a time when humanity had long been human, and even long been civilized."" — Nov 02, 2014 06:41AM
""But the truth is that the curtain rises upon the play already in progress. In one sense it is a true paradox that there was history before there was history.... Very probably it was exceedingly like the history we do know, except in the one detail that we do not know it.... In other words, our most ancient records only reach back to a time when humanity had long been human, and even long been civilized."" — Nov 02, 2014 06:41AM
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"In short, I had always believed that the world involved magic: now I thought that perhaps it involved a magician. And this pointed a profound emotion always present and sub-conscious; that this world of ours has some purpose; and if there is a purpose, there is a person. I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller." — Nov 17, 2015 09:46AM
"In short, I had always believed that the world involved magic: now I thought that perhaps it involved a magician. And this pointed a profound emotion always present and sub-conscious; that this world of ours has some purpose; and if there is a purpose, there is a person. I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller." — Nov 17, 2015 09:46AM


“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
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“There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed again.”
― Letters to a Young Conservative
― Letters to a Young Conservative
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