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One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.

To be a leader of men one must turn one’s back on men.

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.