"Thank you," she whispered, "for keeping yourself alive, soldier." "You're welcome," he whispered back."

-- Paullina Simons

#Soldier Quotes #Alive Quotes #Welcome Quotes

“If I didnt choose art, I would have become an astronomer.”
“Beaver do better work than the Corps of Engineers.”
“Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.”
“It is absurd to say in respect of any intelligence that it is infallible, but if you ask me what I believe, I believe the intelligence was correct, and I think in the end we will have an explanation.”
“Knowledge is devalued when it becomes too generally known”
“We stink more of the world than we stink of sack cloth and ashes. A lot of contemporary churches today would feel more at home in a movie house rather than in a house of prayer, more afraid of holy living than of sinning, know more about money than magnifying Christ in our bodies. It is so compromised that holiness and living a sin-free life is heresy to the modern church. The modern church is, quite simply, just the world with a Christian T-shirt on!”
“Shame tells you when you've gone too far. Then you try if it's okay to go too far. And it might be so that shame was right. You can never, never know that.”

Source : ""Something that's not yourself." - An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgård". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. September 18, 2013.
“I long for the imperishable quiet at the heart of form.”

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