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Apollo, The God Of Light, Of Reason, Of Proportion, Harmony, Number -- Apollo Blinds Those Who Press Too Close In Worship.
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Apollo, the God of light, of reason, of proportion, harmony, number --
Apollo blinds those who press too close in worship. Don't look straight
at the sun. Go into a dark bar and have a beer with Dionysos, every now
and then.
-- U.K. LeGuin
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Too fair to worship, too divine to love. -- Henry Hart Milman (1791-1868) -- The Belvedere Apollo
Apollo: "Even for a god there's a point of no return" -- "Who Mourns For Adonais?
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Grain grows best in shit -- U. K. LeGui
We're immortal, we gods. The Earth changed. Your fathers changed.
They turned away, until we were only memories. A god cannot survive as a memory....
Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man.
-- Christopher Marlowe (1565-1593) -- Faustu...
Apollo said that every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
-- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap. xii, Apology for Raimond Sebond...
There is an order of things in this universe. -- Apollo, "Who Mourns for Adonais?
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The time is past. There is no room for gods. -- Apollo, "Who Mourns for Adonais?
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Apollo 13 Houston, we have a problem. --Tom Hank