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“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
― Lolly Willowes
― Lolly Willowes
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“you do not have to be a fire
for
every mountain blocking you.
you could be a water
and
soft river your way to freedom
too.
- options”
― Salt
for
every mountain blocking you.
you could be a water
and
soft river your way to freedom
too.
- options”
― Salt
“He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.”
― Iaiá Garcia
― Iaiá Garcia
“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
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