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"The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual."
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"When you are truly silent, the whole existence speaks to you."

"Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say."

"A silent night. - the most eloquent poem i have ever read."

"Once you take the time to consider the other person's perspective, you will become sympathetic to his feel ins and ideas. You will be able to authentically and honestly say, 'I don't blame you for feeling as you do. If I were in your position, I would feel just as you do."

"I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run."
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"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."

"Joy is not a substitute for sex, sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy."

"A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish."

"And grief still feels like fear. Perhaps, more strictly, like suspense. Or like waiting; just hanging about waiting for something to happen. It gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness."

"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally " and often far more " worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond."

"In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all."

"If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were educated. But a cultural life will exist outside the Church whether it exists inside or not. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered."
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