"Essay on Adam" There are five possibilities. One: Adam fell. Two: he was pushed. Three: he jumped. Four: he only looked over the edge, and one look silenced him. Five: nothing worth mentioning happened to Adam. The first, that he fell, is too simple. The fourth, fear, we have tried and found useless. The fifth, nothing happened, is dull. The choice is between: he jumped or was pushed. And the difference between these is only an issue of whether the demons work from the inside out or from the outside in: the one theological question."

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Source : Robert Bringhurst (2010). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Random House

Robert Bringhurst

#Simple Quotes #Two Quotes #Differences Quotes

“Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.”
“Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation,”
“By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.”
“Instapaper does support paywall sites. I have a list of them, that when someone saves something it sends a copy of the page as they are viewing it only to them. If you subscribe to a paid site, you can save the content. I'm not really touching the money.”
“You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life ...”

Source : Arthur Rimbaud (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.51, Oxford University Press
“If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.”
“My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.”
“When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain.”

Source : "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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