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“There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding. ... If you forgive, he would say, you may indeed still not understand, but you will be ready to understand, and that is the posture of grace.”
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“How brittle and fugitive is all life, how meagrely and fearfully living things carry their spark of warmth through the icy universe. (Geoffrey Dunlop translation)”
― Narcissus and Goldmund
― Narcissus and Goldmund
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