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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.           Teresa of Ávila, Life of Prayer          

for Philip Hobsbaum Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At first, just one, a glossy pur...

There is a wonderful stillness here. Especially I love the evenings, when I linger on my verandah and revel in the complete absence of all s...

To know what you prefer,      instead of humbly saying Amen           to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,                is to ...

The effort to understand the universe      is one of the very few things           which lifts human life a little above the level of farce ...

If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely...

The sentence is the greatest invention of civilization.           John Banville, Paris Review interview