In Libro Veritas Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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"The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental : .. they are deliberate exercises in doublethink." George Orwell 1984 https://t.co/HfqhudgAWH

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.. and, through his sympathy, heaven and earth should talk with him. But that is not our science." Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature

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"Talent is long patience. Everything you want to express must be considered so long, and so attentively, as to enable you to find some aspect of it which no one has yet seen and expressed." Guy de Maupassant Pierre and Jean, "Of The Novel"

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"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought." Bertrand Russell Free Thought and Official Propaganda

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"To see ! to see ! this is the craving of the sailor, as of the rest of blind humanity. To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence." Joseph Conrad The Mirror of the Sea

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"To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others." Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse

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"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence." Henry David Thoreau Journal, Nov. 3, 1861

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"It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.“ Honoré de Balzac Letters of Two Brides

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"Beauty is a form of Genius. .. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty." Oscar Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray https://t.co/RYxYAkkQ5k

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William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (The Divided Self, and the Process of its Unification)