John Milton, from Areopagitica
“…for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as the soul that whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”
Isn’t that fucking awesome?
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I love great quotes like that!
They always make me jealous that my mind+mouth don’t put together words that beautifully! :)
I like this one.
And always liked the other famous quote from Areopagitica as well.
“As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God’s image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.” –John Milton
Yeah, that’s exactly one sentence later. ha ha.
Too bad the rest of this thing isn’t as awesome. Or close to as coherent.
you know you have terrible taste in music
but great lj icons
fuck you. :)
don’t judge my music tastes by one entry’s “current music” field.
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