"The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities."

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Source : "The Outsider". Book by Colin Wilson, p. 231, 1956.

Colin Wilson

#Discovery Quotes #Illumination Quotes #World Quotes

“You are so very wonderful and fill our lives with cheer, today's a celebration for a daughter-in-law so dear. Happy Birthday”
“Talk to the assistant press secretary, the deputy to key administration officials.”
“The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable”
“To be honest, I don't want No. 1's anymore. Now, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind the odd few, but I'd also like a record going in at eight and staying around.”
“Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.”

Source : "The Hermit's Emergency Shelf". "How to Be a Hermit or a Bachelor Keeps House". Book by Will Cuppy, 1929.
“Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.”

Source : "Political Power in Birmingham, 1871-1921". Book by Carl V. Harris, 1977.
“Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us”

Source : Sappho (2006). “Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho”, Shambhala Publications
“The Lord loves us so much that He suffered for us on the Cross; and His suffering was so great that we can't comprehend it. In the same way our spiritual pastors suffer for us, although we often don't see their suffering. The greater the love of the pastor, the greater his suffering; and we, the sheep, should understand this, and love and honor our pastors.”

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