"No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead."
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"What a writer wants to do is not what he does."
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"Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us."
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"Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn't expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy."
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"What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion."
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"The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice."
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"Has the grim savage rushed again from the wilderness? Or does some fiend... twang her deadly arrows at our breast? No, none of these: it is the hand of Britain that inflicts the wound."
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"No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there - well or poorly."
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"The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature."
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"His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands."
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"Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything."
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"Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel."
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"God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each."
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"Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions."
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"Love does not want or fear anything."
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"Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?"
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"It is absolutely certain that God does exist."
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"Any society that does not succeed in tapping into the energy and creativity of its youth will be left behind."
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"The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness."
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"I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me."
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