Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

Book Excerpts

MacBeth by William Shakespeare

by Gilda Anderson April 27, 2009

1.3 lines 122-125 :Banquo to MacBeth “…oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths; Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.”

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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

by Gilda Anderson April 27, 2009

Part Eight Chapter 19 :Levin talking to himself (thinking) “This new feeling has not changed me, has not made me happy and enlightened all of a sudden, as I dreamed it would. It is like the way it was with my feeling for my son. There was no surprise about this either. But be it [...]

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The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

by Gilda Anderson April 27, 2009

Book IV Torment Chapter I Father Ferapont :Father Paisii speaking to Alexei “Remember, young man, unceasingly,” Father Paisii began, without preface, “that the science of this world, which has become a great power, has, especially in the last century, analysed everything divine handed down to us in the holy books. After this cruel analysis the [...]

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Can a Smart Person Believe in God by Michael Guillen

by Gilda Anderson April 27, 2009

“Still, off the top of my head, I’d say the chances of star dust accidentally coming together to form even a simple creature are akin to the odds of a raw chunk of marble accidentally being carved by wind and rain into Michaelangelo’s Pieta.”

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