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“He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.”
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“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
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“The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.”
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“We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it. Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. We can be sure that whoever sneers at her name as if she were the ornament of a bourgeois past -- whether he admits it or not -- can no longer pray and soon will no longer be able to love.”
― Seeing the Form
― Seeing the Form
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