Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Commonplace Book

'"...Roughly speaking I should say that those men and women who doubt their own immortality have never experienced deep and passionate devotion. They may refuse to accept the Christian doctrine of immortality - that is a different thing; but a human being, who has once absorbingly loved another human being, can never doubt that his love - and therefore himself - is immortal; he is conscious that it is too strong and too godlike an emotion ever to see death."'

from Fuel of Fire by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (Chapter XVII)

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