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"What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what I understand. And these two certainties--my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle--I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope which I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my condition?"
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"I am not what you are. I am only what I can see. I am me."
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"Your eyes have no power to see. They only create optical illusions. Only the mind can see it when it is ready to see it."
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"Lack of money is no poverty."
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"Ancient historians tell us that one of the symptoms of a declining civilization is a desexualization of the human race, with men becoming more effeminate and women becoming more masculine, not only in physical [appearance] but in their basic characters."
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"Parenting is the most important responsibility most of us will ever face, and none of us does it perfectly."
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"To injure, ignore, disrespect, and violate the innocence of a child are among the greatest evils known to man."
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"I don't care if you love me or not, but I care that I love you without any thought."
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"The evangelist cannot bring conviction of sin, righteousness, or judgment; that is the Spirit's work. They cannot convert anyone; that is the Spirit's work."
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"Christianity is not a spectator sport, it's something in which we become totally involved."
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"In the face of legalized pornography, the conscience of America seems to be paralyzed. More serious than our fakery in art, literature, and pictures is the collapse of our moral standards and the blunting of our capacity as a nation for righteous indignation."
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"I rebel, therefore I exist."
Identity

"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."
Diplomacy

"To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art."
Art

"There is do much sttuborn hope in a human heart."
Hope

"The society based on production is only productive, not creative."
Life

"...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I've seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn't want to be helped, and I hadn't time to work up interest for something that didn't interest me."
Belief

"After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books."
Education

"At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there's always a propensity for rhetoric. In the first case, habits have not yet been lost; in the second, they're returning. It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence."
History

"The cats sleep for days at a time and make love from the first star until dawn. Their pleasures are fierce, and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part."
Nature

"To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love."
Wisdom
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