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I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a more real and meaningful relationship. The spicy teas and tasty delicacies I prepare from wild ingredients are the bread and wine in which I have communion and fellowship with nature, and with the Author of that nature.

There are] two states of barbarism, one caused by ignorance, the other (for which there is far less hope of remedy), by the excess and abuse of knowledge. (13 January 1857)

The most hardened hearts find a solace in the thought that their crimes are justifiable.

proper work for the Christian is witness, not apology, and Psalm 124 is an excellent model.

For if a pastor is not in touch with joy, it will be difficult to teach or preach convincingly that the news is good.

Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian. G. K. CHESTERTON

Preaching reveals God in action here and now -- for ME.

Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.

Simplicity is in such scarce supply, I thought, yet so many people would benefit by it, be transformed by it.

life science) definitions. The question that runs through these disputatio is the following: What if "horror" has less to do with a fear of death, and more to do with the dread of life?

Each time I read, and witness the scintillating and austere construction of a system, I cannot help but to feel a certain sadness - the edifice itself is somehow depressing.

Maybe the secret of the pessimistic aphorism is actually quite simple, even formulaic: one is always pretending to be a writer.

The expository head has a message (though not its own message), a message whose efficacy derives, in part, from the almost metaphysical presence of the head, and the equally metaphysical absence of the body.

But the truth is that I am a pessimist… except when writing about pessimism. I've managed to make pessimism a form of therapy.

Pessimism's propositions have all the gravitas of a bad joke.

The relationship between the teacher and pupil was formal. When addressed by the teacher only the surname of the girl was used – never the first name. Vanda Derboot was just Derboot, Evgeniya Scholts – plain Scholts.

Do people know which risks lead to many deaths and which risks lead to few?" the legal scholar Cass Sunstein asks. "They do not. In fact, they make huge blunders." Sunstein draws this observation from the work of Paul Slovic, author of The Perception of Risk.

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

My mother was accursed the night she bore me,and I am faint with envy of all the dead.

I know that language will be a crucial instrument, that I can overcome the stigma of my marginality, the weight of presumption against me, only if the reassuringly right sounds come out of my mouth.

A faint terror lest she begin to curtsy took hold of Rupert.

I think I ought to cut my hair off," said Maia, one morning, as she tore yet another tooth out of Finn's comb. "No. That's a bad idea." Maia looked up, surprised. "But you wanted Clovis to cut his hair." "That was different.

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