The Fall Quotes

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With every morn my life afresh must breakThe crust of self,

With every morn my life afresh must breakThe crust of self, gathered about me fresh;That thy wind-spirit may rush in and shakeThe darkness out of me, and rend the meshThe spider-devils spin out of the flesh-Eager to net the soul before it wake,That it may slumberous lie, and listen to the snake.George MacDonald

George MacDonald

Inspirational Sin Temptation Religious Theology The Fall

One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn'

One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.

Immortality Camus The Fall

So we are steaming along without any landmark; we can't gaug

So we are steaming along without any landmark; we can't gauge our speed. We are making progress and yet nothing is changing. It's not navigation but dreaming.

Progress Lost Camus The Fall Dreaming Of Amelia

What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we disco

What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.

Truth Camus The Fall

I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterb

I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his work, the very respectability of his life and who one evening recognized that he had never loved her. He had been bored, thats all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen even loveless slavery, even war or death.

Philosophy Existentialism Albert Camus The Fall