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'There are a few of us -madmen all! -who are in love with knowing, who would sell the last shirt from our backs for one small truth, one tiny star-fire to light up the murk and mystery of what we call our life: We may go blind before we see it, that's the haunting-'

More from Morris West

  1. 'No man -prince, peasant, pope, -has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek…
  2. 'Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!'
  3. 'If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.'
  4. 'O Mother of Christ, who saw what men could do to one who heard an alien music! Bend to me, be tender. I am blind and deaf and dumb. And ye…
  5. ' I wonder how it will read five hundred years from now? -To make a man confess a loving God you burn him!'
  6. 'To make that long, last donkey-ride between the pikeman and the stake, to hear the shouting and the chant of hypocrites, to be a spectacle…
  7. 'You I admire as being more, -much more -a man, and more believer too, than half the canting orthodox.'
  8. ' I'm a Nolan. I could dazzle you in dialect, because the words do not make the same sense to different men.'

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