“The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused.”
John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher
Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.”
Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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