"Death: Do you never stop questioning? Antonius Block: No. I never stop."

-- Ingmar Bergman

#Block Quotes #Questioning Quotes

“Revival is God revealing Himself to men in awesome holiness and irresistible power.”
“I turned and looked into the gas station, where Wes was now paying, as the man who'd driven us looked on. "That's too bad," I said. "It's okay, though," she assured me. "Someday I'll show you an extraordinary boy, Macy. They do exist. You just have to believe me." "Don't worry," I said. "I do.”
“Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.”
“I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.”
“September: it was the most beautiful of words, heâ€™d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.”

Source : Alexander Theroux (1981). “Darconville's cat”, Doubleday Books
“The whole dissident idea attracts a lot of crazies. And then all of a sudden, without realizing it, you've become one of them.”
“Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.”
“How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.”

Source : allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

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