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by Katriona O'Sullivan

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My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer by Christian Wiman

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(“… what we learn in time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise”—The Plague).

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“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”
― Rilke Rainer Maria

tags: love, rainer-maria-rilke

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“Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with the other, we sink into the mire of deceit and self-delusion.”
― Danail Hristov, The End of the Jesus Era

tags: deceit, human-history, justice, self-delusion

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