Famous quotes containing the words twofold and/or degenerate:
“Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly
Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky
So this winged hour is dropped to us from above.
Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower,
This close-companioned inarticulate hour
When twofold silence was the song of love.”
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti (18281882)
“In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.”
—Simone Weil (19091943)
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