“People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.”
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Nikos Kazantzakis book The Saviors of God
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Context: How does the light of a star set out and plunge into black eternity in its immortal course? The star dies, but the light never dies; such also is the cry of freedom.
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And this Cry, abandoning to the earth the body which gave it birth, proceeds and labors eternally.
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“Redeemers always reach the world too late.
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Peter Porter (1929–2010) British poet
"A Tale of Two Pieties", in The Chair of Babel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992) p. 51.
William Powell (author) book The Anarchist Cookbook
"Postscript", p. 153.
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Amiri Baraka (1934–2014) African-American writer
On how art might turn “dangerous” if it becomes too political in “In Memoriam: An Interview with the Late Amiri Baraka” https://www.sampsoniaway.org/interviews/2014/01/10/in-memoriam-an-interview-with-the-late-amiri-baraka/ in Sampsonia Way (2014 Jan 10)
“People are dying today that have never died before.”
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
According to Snopes.com https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-quote-never-died-before/, there is no record of Trump saying this. <br class="br">Misattributed