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She loves you. Do you even know what to do with that?” I kissed the top of her head. “Cherish it like it’s the most precious thing on the face of the earth.

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Walter M. Miller, Jr.

. . . . to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

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I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.

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Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the core of the Temple, it had also scorched the life from a city, this night, and spewed its venom over the land. How strange of God to speak from a burning bush, and of Man to make a symbol of Heaven into a symbol of Hell.

City, Fire, God, Men, Night

Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.

Ask, Asks, Essentia, Hominum, Omen, Stones

Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, America—burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion.

Dust, Fall, Pendulum, Play, Salt, Swing

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

Bestow, Godhood, Infinite, Men, Wells
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