"Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine."

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Source : 'Cargoes' (1903)

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“But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface.”
“When firearms go, all goes - we need them every hour.”
“Dexterity is one of the chief weapons of diplomacy; governments rely more upon the supremacy of this instrument, when in the hands of a skillful diplomatist, than in the soundness or justice of their claims.”
“Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.”

Source : "Violence in the media". Canadian Forum, Volume 56, (p. 9), 1976.
“The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.”
“A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.”
“Girls get screwed. Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things. The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feel cheap for doing exactly what they beg for. The way they get to play you, all the while claiming they love you and making you believe it's true. The way it's okay to gift their heart one day, a backhand the next, to move on to the apricot when the peach blushes and bruises. These things make me believe God's a man after all.”
“I love France. France is a nice place.”

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