
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
“Things which do not grow and change are dead things.”
As translated by Arthur Imerti (1964)
The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (1584)
“where some god pissed a rain of
reason to make things grow
only to die”
Source: Letter to his daughter (1978), p. 14.
As translated by Paul Harrison <!-- Fifth dialogue ?-->
Cause, Principle, and Unity (1584)
Context: The Universe is one, infinite, immobile. The absolute potential is one, the act is one, the form or soul is one, the material or body is one, the thing is one, the being in one, one is the maximum and the best... It is not generated, because there is no other being it could desire or hope for, since it comprises all being. It does not grow corrupt. because there is nothing else into which it could change, given that it is itself all things. It cannot diminish or grow, since it is infinite.
“Let's meet and either do or die.”
The Island Princess (c. 1620; published 1647), Act II, scene 2. Compare: "Let us do or die", Robert Burns, Bannockburn; same in Thomas Campbell, Gertrude of Wyoming, part iii. stanza 37.
"A Sad Heart at the Supermarket," Daedalus, vol. 89, no. 2 (Spring 1960); published in A Sad Heart at the Supermarket (1962)
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