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Gilbert Keith Chesterton—that Catholic equivalent of Hotei, the “laughing Buddha”—who, though neither a great poet nor a great theologian, had the sort of bewitched imagination from which great poetry and theology can be made. He shone as an essayist and fantast, and of all his many essays the most profound and provoking was “On Nonsense,” the
Alan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
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Dea Toivonen • 11 cards
What did it avail to pray when he knew that his soul lusted after its own destruction? A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God’s power to take away his life while he slept and hurl his soul hellward ere he could beg for mercy. His pride in his own sin, his loveless awe
... See moreJames Joyce • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Wisehouse Classics Edition)
And therefore, trusting greatly in the mercy of God, I live in hopes that I’ll be completely forgiven, sir.”
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible.