“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.”
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“Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.
(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)”
― Pascal's Pensees
(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)”
― Pascal's Pensees
“People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”
― The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
― The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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