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“If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.”
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“But Your law, O God, permits the free flow of curiosity to be stemmed by force. From the schoolmaster’s cane to the ordeals of martyrdom, Your law prescribes bitter medicine to retrieve us from the noxious pleasures which cause us to desert You.”
― Confessions
― Confessions
“Extravagance masquerades as fullness and abundance: but You are the full, unfailing store of never-dying sweetness.”
― THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE
― THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few are to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”
― The Essays
― The Essays
“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.”
― Conversations with James Baldwin
― Conversations with James Baldwin
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