Captivity

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CaptivityYou have often said that you could never write a book. You have written this one just as surely as Beatrice wrote the Vita Nuova for Dante. Until I talked with you I did n ot know that our lives are the pathway for God's feet; I had not realized that Trinity of body, brain and spirit; and it had never come to me before how, for each other's sake, we must set a censor, very strong and austere, upon our secret thoughts. I have learnt these things from you; the gold of your thoughts has passed through the crucible of my experience to make a book. Perhaps a little of the gold has been left clinging to the crucibleand for that I have to thank you, my dear. "Man comes into life to seek and find his sufficient beauty, to serve it, to win and increase it, to fight for it; to face anything and dare anything for it, counting death as nothing so long as the dying eyes still turn to it. And fear and dulness and indolence and appetitewhich, indeed, are no more than fear's three crippled brothers who make ambushes and creep by nightare against him, to delay him, to hold him off, to hamper and beguile and kill him in that quest." ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 15527 Author: Eyles, Leonora Release Date: Apr 2, 2005 Format: eBook Language: English Show more