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Life is very marvelous ... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
I consider the saga of no lord of the Silver Stallion to be worth squabbling over.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
The little silver effigies which his postulants fashion and adore are well enough: but Kalki is a horse of another color.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
These young people were getting a calm and temperate, but a positive, gratification out of being virtuous.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
I do not seek to copy nature. I, on the contrary, create to divert me such faith and dreams as living among men would tend to destroy.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
This is a strong magic. This is a sententious magic.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
I am content. While my shrewd fellows rode about the world to seek and to attain power and wisdom, I have elected, as and unpractical realist, to follow after beauty.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
There is no gift more great than love.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
Nothing ... nothing in the universe, is of any importance, or is authentic to any serious sense, except the illusions of romance.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
Coth admitted that, say what you might as to the Manuel who had really lived, the squinting rascal did as a rule know what he was talking about.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
Life is a pageant that passes very quickly, going hastily from one darkness to another darkness with only ignes fatui to guide; and there is no sense in it. I learned that, Kerin, without moiling over books.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
They tell me that truth lies somewhere at the bottom of a well, and at virtually the door of our home is a most notable if long dried well. Our location is thus quite favorable, if we but keep patience.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
Now, the redemption which we as yet await (continued Imlac), will be that of Kalki, who will come as a Silver Stallion: all evils and every sort of folly will perish at the coming of this Kalki: true righteousness will be restored, and the minds of men will be made as clear as crystal.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
Everywhere in the world people were expecting the latter coming of one or another kickshaw messiah who would remove the discomforts which they themselves were either too lazy or too incompetent to deal with; and nobody had anything whatever to gain with electing for peculiarity among one's fellow creatures and a gloomier outlook.
Even Coth saw that.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
For men dare not face the universe with no better backing than their own resources; all men that live, and that go perforce about this world like blundering lost children whose rescuer is not yet in sight, have a vital need to believe in this sustaining legend about the Redeemer: and the wickedness and the foolishness of no man can avail against the fond optimism of mankind.
The Silver Stallion (1926)