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Francis Spufford has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.
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God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.
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Taking the things people do wrong seriously is part of taking them seriously. It’s part of letting their actions have weight. It’s…
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Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.
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Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as…
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If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to…
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The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their…
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If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t…
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I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading…
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When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with…
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Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay…
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You never came out the way you came in.
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Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations…
— Mark Twain
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Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.
— Louise Hay
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It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.
— Mark Twain
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What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.
— Mark Twain
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It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn…
— Mark Twain
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And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond…
— C.S. Lewis
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Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step…
— Rumi
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Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.
— Francis Spufford
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What do you call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, magnanimity, forgiveness? Different results of the one master impulse: the necessity of securing…
— Mark Twain
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