“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.”
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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.