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“Do you realize that anything you can do in your lifetime will be meaningless a hundred years from now?" she says.”
― Lullaby
― Lullaby
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― Man and Superman
― Man and Superman
“The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.”
― Praise of Folly
― Praise of Folly
“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”
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“Disgusted by the abuses to which it led, humanity repressed Christianity by which it had so long been dominated. Repressed, but not eliminated. Herein lies, I believe, the essence of the tragedy of modern times. The modern man lives as if Christianity were a negligible hypothesis with no relation to the concrete realities of the world and society. And yet at the bottom of his heart this man remains impregnated with Christianity, so that he lives in a state of perpetual ambivalence with regard to it.”
― The Whole Person in a Broken World
― The Whole Person in a Broken World
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