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"It matters whether you see yourself as someone who is capable of effecting change or whether you see yourself as someone whose voice does not count. It matters whether you treat yourself with reverence or with carelessness. Every bit of work you do on yourself matters. Every time you choose love, it matters."
"One of the reasons so many nonfiction books are so boring is because what they've done, very diligently, is fulfill the terms of their proposals. They've written up their proposal, long-form, and often what this does is then set up a sort of serial deal, where the whole book can essentially be reduced back to the size of the original proposal!"
"Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?"
"The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood."
"If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it."
"An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country."
"Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does."
"If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?"
"Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world."
"We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat."
"Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does."
"A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward."
"The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again"
"Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward."
"Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness."
"Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it."
"The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more."
"Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists."
"Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: 'Quick! Quick! Quick!' And the more she destroys, the more she is renewed."
"He who does not answer the questions has passed the test."
