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“A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.”

— Simone Weil

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Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.

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The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

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All sins are attempts to fill voids.

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Be thy best thoughts to work divine addressed; Do something,—do it soon—with all thy might; An angel's wing would droop if long at rest, And God Himself inactive were no longer blessed.

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When I read the life of such a man as Paul, how I blush to think how sickly and dwarfed Christianity is at the present time, and how many hundreds there are who never think of working for the Son of God and honoring Christ.

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What is done is done; has already blended itself with the boundless, ever living, ever working universe, and will also work there for good or evil, openly or secretly, throughout all time.

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