"It’s said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards is the fire. That’s of the four suits. But the Greater Trumps, it’s said, are the meaning of all process and the measure of the everlasting dance."

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Source : Charles Williams (2016). “The Greater Trumps”, p.21, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Charles Williams

#Rain Quotes #Fire Quotes #Wind Quotes

“People in movies and TV seem to be completely dumb to what's going on in the real world and relationships.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to the original of the One, the Primordial Man. In this way our existence as separate beings, our former ego nature, is abolished, the circle of consciousness is widened, and because the paradoxes have been made conscious, the sources of conflict are dried up.”
“The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta.”
“Have you ever been in love, Hadrian?â€ â€œIâ€™m not sure. How do you tell?â€ â€œLove? Why, itâ€™s like coming home.â€ Hadrian considered the comment. â€œWhat are you thinking?â€ Bulard asked. Hadrian shook his head. â€œNothing.â€ â€œYes, you were. What? You can tell me. Iâ€™m an excellent repository for secrets. Iâ€™ll likely forget, but if I donâ€™t, well, Iâ€™m an old man in a remote jungle. Iâ€™m sure to die before I can repeat anything.â€ Hadrian smiled, then shrugged. â€œI was just thinking about the rain.”
“For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is at the end. If a lion chases you to the bank of a river filled with crocodiles, you will leap into the water convinced you have a chance to swim to the other side. But you would not accept such odds if there were no lion.”
“Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.”

Source : 'A Defence of Rhyme'
“When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.”
“I basically - I don't like tattoos, unless you're a firefighter who has a tattoo that has to do with that or a military guy. That's - those are people who should have tattoos.”

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