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“The theater enchanted me with its images of my own miseries. Its plays added fuel to my fire. What makes someone want to be made sad? Why behold doleful tragedies, vicariously experiencing what does not have to be suffered? Yet the spectator wants to feel sorrow at the stories, and this very anguish is pleasure. This seems to be wretched insanity.”
― The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Version
― The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Version
“To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.”
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“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
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“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
― The Crack-Up
― The Crack-Up
“Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.”
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