“ I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone. ”
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“ I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone. ”
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“ Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was. ”
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“ There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things. ”
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“ There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality. It makes no sense at all because it is the eternal breaking in on the temporal. So how could it subordinate itself to cause or consequence? ”
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“ I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep. ”
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“ I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly certain it exceeds any imagination a human being might have of it. God does, after all, so love the world. ”
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“ When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth. ”
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“ I felt, as I have often felt, that my failing the truth could have no bearing at all on the Truth itself, which could never conceivably be in any sense dependent on me or on anyone. ”
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“ To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we ourselves are not as fallible as those who, in any instance, seem most at fault. Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again. ”
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“ Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it. ”
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“ To play catch on an evening, to smell the river, to hear the train pass. These little towns were once the bold ramparts meant to shelter just such peace. ”
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“ I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when it's gone, it's like there's nothing left of you at all . . . except what you can't be rid of. ”
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“ It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so. ”
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“ I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things. ”
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“ It seems to me there is less meanness in atheism, by a good measure. It seems that the spirit of religious selfrighteousness this article deplores is precisely the spirit in which it is written. Of course he's right about many things, one of them being the destructive potency of religious selfrighteousness. (p. 146) ”
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“ It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so. ”
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“ You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension. ”
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“ I am glad I didn't understand, because I have rarely felt joy like that, and assurance. It was like one of those dreams where you're filled with some extravagant feeling you might never have in life, it doesn't matter what it is, even guilt or dread, and you learn from it what an amazing instrument you are, so to speak, what a power you have to experience beyond anything you might ever actually need. Who would have thought that the moon could dazzle and flame like that? ”
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“ We are in the process of disabling our most distinctive achievement our educational system in the name of making the country more like itself. ”
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“ We are in the process of disabling our most distinctive achievement our educational system in the name of making the country more like itself. ”
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“ I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books. ”
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“ I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books. ”
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“ Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit in the porches and sing them on mild evenings. ”
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“ Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit in the porches and sing them on mild evenings. ”
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“ Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit in the porches and sing them on mild evenings. ”
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“ I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. ”
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