Self will come to life even in the slaying of self
 George MacDonald, Phantastes (1858). copy citation

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Author George MacDonald
Source Phantastes
Topic life self-knowledge
Date 1858
Language English
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“Another self seemed to arise, like a white spirit from a dead man, from the dumb and trampled self of the past. Doubtless, this self must again die and be buried, and again, from its tomb, spring a winged child; but of this my history as yet bears not the record. Self will come to life even in the slaying of self; but there is ever something deeper and stronger than it, which will emerge at last from the unknown abysses of the soul: will it be as a solemn gloom, burning with eyes? or a clear morning after the rain?” source