“Oh, eternal mother of mysteries
who, in suffering and lust, conceives
numerous lives, who creates
a thousand twists, a thousand hues, and shades,
what is the spring of these eternal rhythms?”

— Yeghishe Charents

Dantesque Legend (1916)

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Armenian poet 1897–1937

Elizabeth Noble (1968) British novelist

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“A true seeker could not accept any teachings, not if he sincerely wished to find something. But he who had found, could give his approval to every path, every goal; nothing separated him from all of the other thousands who lived in eternity, who breathed the Divine.”

Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) German writer

Source: Siddhartha (1922), p. 80

“What glorious light, wisdom without bound, wrapt in eternal solitary shade.”

Franco Battiato (1945) Italian singer-songwriter, composer, and filmmaker

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“The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher

“I cannot believe that there is any being in this universe who has created a human soul for eternal pain. I would rather that every god would destroy himself; I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

What Must We Do To Be Saved? (1880) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38801/38801-h/38801-h.htm Section X, "The Evangelical Alliance."

“[…] the Eternal turned his attention to the three shades who stood humbly and yet hopefully before him. The quick, with so short a time to live, when they talk of themselves, talk too much; but the dead, with eternity before them, are so verbose that only angels could listen to them with civility.”

W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer

"The judgement seat", p. 314
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“He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

“And do not humans strive in a thousand ways to fill or to break the eternal silence of those infinite spaces that affright them?”

Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher

Socrates, p. 125
Valéry alludes to a famous pensée of Blaise Pascal: 'The eternal silence of these infinite spaces affrights me.' (Pensées, no. 201).
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