Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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“There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth… a tiny spurt of flame that blazed out briefly in an illimitable and terrifying darkness… And he knew that he would die with defiance on his lips, and that the shout of his denial would ring with the last pulsing of his heart into the maw of all-engulfing night.”

Thomas Wolfe 1900 – 1938 CE
(Thomas Clayton Wolfe)
Father of autobiographical fiction
from Look Homeward, Angel

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