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- I believe we are going to have to prepare ourselves for the difficult and patient task of outgrowing rigid and intransigent nationalism, and work slowly…
- Once you have grace," I said to him, "you are free. Without it, you cannot help doing the things you know you should not do,…
- To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to…
- If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but…
- I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask…
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