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| 17 | 51 | Is grandeur so View more quotes about fearful">fearful that men must shield themselves with pettiness from its glory; do they not understand that in themselves, and in perhaps a thousand other intelligences, reality has opened its eyes upon its own immensity; do they shut their eyes lest they see gods? We could see now a glimmer of light on the peak of the Torvaldsberg. |
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| 17 | 48 | These were the men without meaning, so full and so empty, so crowded, so desolate, so busy, so needlessly occupied. |
| 17 | 49 | These were the gray men, the hurrying men, the efficient, smug, tragic insects, noiseless on soft feet, in the billion iron hills of technology. |
| 17 | 50 | How few of them gazed ever on the stars. |
| 17 | 51 | Is grandeur so fearful that men must shield themselves with pettiness from its glory; do they not understand that in themselves, and in perhaps a thousand other intelligences, reality has opened its eyes upon its own immensity; do they shut their eyes lest they see gods? We could see now a glimmer of light on the peak of the Torvaldsberg. |
| 17 | 52 | I wondered how many men would die. |
| 17 | 53 | I wondered if I myself, this morning, in Torvaldsland, in bleak light, would die. |
| 17 | 54 | I gripped the ax. |