"Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him."

-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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“Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.”
“Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.”

Source : "The Help". Book by Kathryn Stockett, 2009.
“Success in life is about obsession”
“Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.”
“Sometimes I fantasize about learning to write in Khmer. Because if I could write in Khmer, my perspective would be very different, because I'm both an outsider and insider and I see the writing in a different way. My description would be different from, say, a local writer.”
“If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.”
“It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense of division between spirit and flesh, religion and art.”
“A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.”

Source : Hope Mirrlees (2007). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.136, Wildside Press LLC

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