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One nation’s propaganda may be its enemy’s profanity: truth in war is relative (which is not to say that some kinds of killing aren’t worse than others). “Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice,” Montaigne observed. Or,
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“I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain-edges will grow light. Till then I see what’s really always there: Unresting death, a whole day nearer now, Making all thought impossible but how And where and when I shall myself die.”
― My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
― My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
“Tell me honestly”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“Love God’s entire creation”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“Don’t be afraid of anything; never be afraid”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“The only way to true life is a kind of death. The man who feels the attraction of the Divine Truth and who realizes that he is being drawn out of this visible world into an unknown realm of cloud and darkness”
― The Ascent to Truth
― The Ascent to Truth
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