A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the … - Walter Savage Landor

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Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?

Walter Savage Landor

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

Brain, Cooking, Good, Peculiar, Perfect

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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

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Fernando Pessoa

I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old religions as well as in the gods of modern nonreligions. I reject Jehova as I reject humanity.

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Jack Kerouac

Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?

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C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.

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