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The Great Work vs. Lesser Work

2019-11-20 · 926 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

The Great Work vs. Lesser Work — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "A lot of people facing fascism didn’t become fascists. I don’t happen to believe that we are all monsters." – Margaret
The Great Work vs. Lesser Work — pen and ink drawing

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"A lot of people facing fascism didn’t become fascists. I don’t happen to believe that we are all monsters." – Margaret Atwood

"The peril of the heavy tower, of the restless vault, of the vagrant buttress; the uncertainty of logic, the inequalities of the syllogism, the irregularities of the mental mirror,— all these haunting nightmares of the Church are expressed as strongly by the Gothic cathedral although it had been the cry of human suffering, and as no emotion had ever been expressed before or likely to find expression again." – Henry Adams in: "Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres"

"His speech was substantial, and its contents extensive. The messenger, whose mouth was heavy, was not able to…

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