"Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption."

-- Baal Shem Tov

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“We are here speaking in open disapproval of that false system of philosophy, not so long ago introduced, by which, because of an extended and unbridled desire of novelty, truth is not sought where it truly resides, and, with a disregard for the holy and apostolic traditions, other vain, futile, uncertain doctrines, not approved by the Church are accepted as true, on which very vain men mistakenly think that truth itself is supported and sustained.”
“Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.”
“Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind.”
“Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.”
“If you are allergic to alcohol... can you take shots for that?”
“Life is so endlessly delicious”
“We're a small part of this ecosystem. When we go to a school and talk about investment banking, they are these monster financial conglomerates, and so we end up in the same pot. That is still an issue for us.”
“Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.”

Source : Cecil Day Lewis (1992). “The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis”, p.346, Stanford University Press

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