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“It is not what you endure that matters, but how you endure it.”
― Dialogues and Essays
― Dialogues and Essays
“We have, of course, this continuity, but we are conscious of something more; we have, as no animal or plant has, the power of self-reflection and we can see in ourselves something more than a mere continuity of identity.”
― Resurrection Is Now: how death is not only an end but a beginning, and how to live life as a preparation for death and resurrection.
― Resurrection Is Now: how death is not only an end but a beginning, and how to live life as a preparation for death and resurrection.
“Often it is better to hide an illness from the patient, because just the mere awareness of a disease can bring about death.”
― On the Shortness of Life: De Brevitate Vitae (A New Translation)
― On the Shortness of Life: De Brevitate Vitae (A New Translation)
“We think that death comes after, whereas in fact it comes both before and after.”
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“We have only to reflect upon the fact that no human being can be a substitute for another, a fact of which love makes us sharply aware with its impelling desire for a unique relationship with a unique person, to realise what this means and to discover that we have here something not met with in the rest of nature; that we are dealing with a uniqueness which goes far beyond mere individuation of bodies or mere differences of appearance and behaviour.”
― Resurrection Is Now: how death is not only an end but a beginning, and how to live life as a preparation for death and resurrection.
― Resurrection Is Now: how death is not only an end but a beginning, and how to live life as a preparation for death and resurrection.
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