"Only for you, children of doctrine and learning, have we written this work. Examine this book, ponder the meaning we have dispersed in various places and gathered again; what we have concealed in one place we have disclosed in another, that it may be understood by your wisdom."

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Source : Dedication in "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco, 1988.

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

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“I think it's important to be an absolute believer and have that confidence.”
“People so seldom say I love you And then it's either too late or love goes. So when I tell you I love you, It doesn't mean I know you'll never go, Only that I wish you didn't have to.”
“Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?”
“Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.”

Source : Tom Spanbauer (2007). “In the City of Shy Hunters”, p.74, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Buddhists and Christians contrive to agree about death Making death their ideal basis for different ideals. The Communists however disapprove of death Except when practical.”

Source : William Empson (1984). “Collected poems”, Chatto & Windus
“As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and political logic that dictated the destruction of the German cities.”
“la ilaha il-Allah, wa Muhammadu... (There is no god but God and Muhammed [is His prophet”
“Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.”

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