This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes digestion dint extend
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I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go. Brian Ferneyhough accountforceimplication Change image and share on social
If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things. Kirk Cameron darwinendextend Change image and share on social
Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty, it opens thousands of cracked lips. Subsoil is more skeletal: it doesn't digest. Alice Oswald chewcrackdigest share on social
Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect. Yann Martel carefullydintduh share on social