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- The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
- Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together;…
- In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of…
- When we hit a nail with a hammer the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into a point…
- The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood…
- As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that unhappily small extent…
- Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also…
- One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is…
- The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.
- The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something devastating. At the…
- If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at…
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