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Madeleine L'Engle

"When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen to his work, and so he often wrote better than he could write; Bach composed more deeply, more truly than he knew, Rembrandt's brush put more of the human spirit on canvas than Rembrandt could comprehend. When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens."

-- Madeleine L'Engle

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“The choice people have to make is never between slavery and freedom. We will always have to choose between slavery and the unknown.”
“To a large extent the evil-doers have succeeded in producing at the output end of their machine a kind of black man who is man only in form. This is the extent to which the process of dehumanization has advanced.”
“There's so much one person can do, and so many ways they can help make a difference. It just takes one person to help someone to a better life.”
“When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.”
“Simple yet succinct, Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals exposes the idols of modernity and provides the biblical arsenal needed for their complete destruction. Trevin Wax provides medicine for the heart in this short, powerful study. Read it and be blessed.”
“No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.”
“But if they're so successful, why haven't parasites taken over the world? The answer is simple: they have. We just haven't noticed. That's because successful parasites don't kill us; they become part of us, making us perform all the work to keep them alive and help them reproduce...”

Source : Daniel Suarez (2009). “Daemon”, p.426, Penguin
“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.”

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