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He's a hedonist at heart. All those fasts and vigils and stakes and crosses are only a façade. Or only like foam on the seashore. Out at sea, out in H...more

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As long as he does not convert it into action, it does not matter how much he thinks about this new repentance.

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We want cattle who can finally become food; He wants servants who can finally become sons. We want to suck in, He wants to give out. We are empty and ...more

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The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in ...more

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Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy's ground...All...more

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We want the Church to be small not only that fewer men may know the Enemy but also that those who do may acquire the uneasy intensity and the defensiv...more

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Now it may surprise you to learn that in His efforts to get permanent possession of a soul, He relies on the troughs even more than on the peaks; some...more

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No man will love you, though you gave your life for him, unless you have a pretty face. So (might it not be?), the gods will not love you (however you...more

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You're a tree in whose shadow we can't thrive. We want to be our own.

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...true wisdom is the skill and practice of death.

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Of the things that followed I cannot say at all whether they were what men call dream. And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many s...more

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I could mend my soul no more than my face. Unless the gods helped. And why did the gods not help?

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How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

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Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?

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It is the gods who have been accused. They have answered her. If they in turn accuse her, a greater judge and a more excellent court must try the case...more