Adam Nicolson Quotes
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As the generation of leaves, so too is the generation of men. And as for leaves, the winds scatter some on the earth, But the new wood puts forth others, and spring comes again. So it is with men: as one generation is born, another dies.
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A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.
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The place has entered me...it has coloured my life like a stain.
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The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The essence of a field is that the cultural accommodates the natural there. The human being makes room for and makes use of those organisms that are not him. In that way the field is a poem to symbiosis, and a human contract with the natural.
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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
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The purity of death holds no attraction for the Homeric Greeks. Their world is one in which the felt, sensed and shared reality, the reality of the human heart, is the only one worth having.
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There will be no peace until the violence is done. Peace is inaccessible without the violence, because violence is righteousness in action.
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This was all evidence of the tradition at work, of Homer being more interested in epic music than its meaning.