We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
“We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.”
The World Motivation
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
“We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.”
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“We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.”
“The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.”
“But Proportion has a sister, less smiling, more formidable, a Goddess even now engaged--in the heat and sands of India, the mud and swamp of Africa, the purlieus of London, wherever in short the climate or the devil tempts men to fall from the true belief which is her own--is even now engaged in dashing down shrines, smashing idols, and setting up in their place her own stern countenance. Conversion is her name and she feasts on the wills of the weakly, loving to impress, to impose, adoring her own features stamped on the face of the populace. At Hyde Park Corner on a tub she stands preaching; shrouds herself in white and walks penitentially disguised as brotherly love through factories and parliaments; offers help, but desires power; smites out of her way roughly the dissentient, or dissatisfied; bestows her blessing on those who, looking upward, catch submissively from her eyes the light of their own. [She] had her dwelling in [his] heart, though concealed, as she mostly is, under some plausible disguise; some venerable name; love, duty, self sacrifice. How he would work--how toil to raise funds, propagate reforms, initiate institutions! But conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.”
“Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.”
“Food is a great literary theme. Food in eternity, food and sex, food and lust. Food is a part of the whole of life. Food is not separate.”
“Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!”
“My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.”
“Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.”
“A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.”
“What is it worth to possess the riches of the world, when a man comes to face Eternity?”