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“I take the position that true faith is not a supersessional knowledge. It cannot discard the intellect.”
― City of God
― City of God
“The greatest mistake is to think that we ever know why we do things...I suppose the nearest we can ever come to it is by getting what old people call 'experience.' But by the time we've got that we're no longer the persons who did the things we no longer understand. The trouble is, I suppose, that we change every moment; and the things we did stay.”
― The Buccaneers
― The Buccaneers
“I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one’s inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone.”
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“I’m the woman who makes the monsters go away.”
― Cold Spectrum
― Cold Spectrum
“The dark is generous and it is patient and it always wins – but in the heart of its strength lies its weakness: one lone candle is enough to hold it back.
Love is more than a candle.
Love can ignite the stars.”
― Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
Love is more than a candle.
Love can ignite the stars.”
― Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
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