Author: Saint Augustine

Cited by

• David Edmonds (1)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: How are they free from sin who... have taken a human life?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Numidia
• Patrick Downes (1)
  • IN: Fell of Dark (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
    FROM: The City of God, Book XXI, (425), NULL, Algeria
• Patrick White (1)
  • IN: The Vivisector (1986) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: They love truth when it reveals itself, and they hate it when it reveals themselves.
    FROM: The Confessions, (400), Book, Italy
• Harry Matthews (1)
  • IN: My Life in CIA (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Certainly -- and I say this fearlessly and from my heart -- if I had to write with such vast authority I should prefer so to write that my words should mean whatever truth anyone would find upon these matters, rather than express one true meaning so clearly as to exclude all others, though these contain no falsehoods to offend me.
    FROM: Confessinos, (400), Book, Italy
• Nicola Barker (1)
  • IN: Happy (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
    FROM: City of God, (476), NULL, Algeria