"the acomas who must share the universal human yearning for something permanent, enduring, without shadow of change, - they had their idea in substance. They actually lived upon their Rock; were born upon it and died upon it. There was an element of exaggeration in anything so simple!"
"Not often, indeed had Jean marie Ltour come so near to the Fountain of all Pity as in the Lady Chapel that night; the pity that no man born of woman could ever utterly cut himself off from; That was for the murderer on the scaffold, as it was for the dying soldier or the martyr on the rack."
"Father latour judged that, just as it was the white man's way to assert himself in any landscape, to change it, make it over a little (at least to leave some mark of memorial of his sojourn), it was the Indian's way to pass through a country without distrurbing anything; to pass and leave no trace, like fish through the water, or birds through the air."
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"the acomas who must share the universal human yearning for something permanent, enduring, without shadow of change, - they had their idea in substance. They actually lived upon their Rock; were born upon it and died upon it. There was an element of exaggeration in anything so simple!"
"Not often, indeed had Jean marie Ltour come so near to the Fountain of all Pity as in the Lady Chapel that night; the pity that no man born of woman could ever utterly cut himself off from; That was for the murderer on the scaffold, as it was for the dying soldier or the martyr on the rack."
"Father latour judged that, just as it was the white man's way to assert himself in any landscape, to change it, make it over a little (at least to leave some mark of memorial of his sojourn), it was the Indian's way to pass through a country without distrurbing anything; to pass and leave no trace, like fish through the water, or birds through the air."
"To fulfill the dreams of one's youth; that is hte best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that."
"I am enjoying to the full that period of reflection which is the happiest conclusoin to a life of action"
"I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived."
"In New Mexico he always awoke a young man; not until he rose and began to shave did he realize that he was growing older."
"He had noticed that this peculiar quality in the air of new countries vanished after they were tamed by man and made to bare harvests."
"And he noticed that he judged conduct differently now; his own and that of others."
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