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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon…
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action…
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to…
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
— Honore de Balzac
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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It brings spiritual warfare and suffering for the priest as he identifies with those who suffer, and shares the frustrations, anger, and…
— Arthur Middleton
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Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked…
— Jerry Saltz
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How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the…
— Brennan Manning
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Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot…
— Henri Nouwen
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I should . . . prefer swallowing one incomprehensibility rather than two. It requires one effort only to admit the single incomprehensibility…
— Thomas Jefferson
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When the mind floats on the sea of the majesty of God and His incomprehensibility, it is amazed and lost in wonder…
— Unknown Author
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