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“He did not mention that he was a lineal descendant of Balaam's ass; but every body knew that without his telling it.”
― Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress

“But in the long run it is perhaps even more apparent in our growing - for it ought to be growing - awareness that our whole being by its very nature is one vast need; incomplete, preparatory, empty yet cluttered, crying out for Him who can untie things that are now knotted together and tie up things that are dangling loose.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“They [the Jesuit boys] were full of corny quips and Eastern college talk and had nothing on their bird-beans except a lot of ill-understood Aquinas for stuffing for their pepper.”
― Jack Kerouac, On The Road