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«What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give, and frowns can take; and not worth the owning which a night's fire can melt, or a rough sea can drown»
«When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes»
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Novelist,
Scholar)
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About:
Catholicism,
Protestantism
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Protestantism,
The Mist,
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«You are not special. Your are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
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Journalist,
Novelist,
Satirist)
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Keywords:
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Everything is Beautiful,
organic,
snowflake,
snowflakes,
special,
unique
«To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.»
«Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
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Dramatist,
Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
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