"The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium."

-- George Stillman Hillard

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“the darkness is a cresting wave. It sweeps me up out of my body until I float among the stars, those tine bright pores on the sky's skin. If only I could pass through them, I would end up on the other side, the right side, shadowless, perfectly illuminated, beyond the worries of this mundane world”
“We need to be poor! Let us live an ordinary life, but, beloved, let us live it with a passionate love for God. Become a mystery. Stretch one hand out to God, the other to your neighbour. Be cruciform. â€¦ Christâ€™s cross will be our revolution and it will be a revolution of love!”
“I'm in love," he said hoarsely. "With someone else. That's why." Qhuinn (Lover Unleashed)”
“Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”

Source : The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness foreword (1944)
“I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.”
“There's this way that photography is always about going out searching. I'm not the kind of a photographer who can photograph my home.”
“There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!”
“One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.”

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