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“The truth that people are only as good as the world lets them be. You’re not inherently good and I’m not inherently bad. We’re just working through the cards life dealt us. So putting you in this position, dealing you these cards—what does ...more

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“Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in that mazeis itself an enslavement for it voids every alternate and binds one ever more tightly in to the constraints that make a life.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain

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“Then he quoted from a French Jesuit named Teilhard de Chardin: “He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves

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“The teaching of celibacy was created neither by the Church Fathers nor by the later Church leaders, as most people believe.”
― Danail Hristov, Celibacy: a Godsend or a Life-Undermining Practice

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“It is not difficult to see that if everyone were to follow Paul’s personal example of celibacy, his idea of holiness, and his dream of celibate society, the human race would in no time be wiped off the face of the Earth.”
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“So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves

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