
“Without looking out of my window
I could know the ways of heaven”
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
“Without looking out of my window
I could know the ways of heaven”
“I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.”
From her obituary in Century Magazine
Source: 20th Century Ghosts
The Duty of Owning Books (1859)
Context: Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.
Sunshine Superman (1966), Season Of The Witch