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Say a daily rosary if you can at all. It will do your soul much good.
hisperic
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- If old people's nostalgia ever annoys you remember that they're longing for a time when more people they loved were alive.
- The car, in addition to ravaging the earth, has robbed man of his friend, the horse. Would our ancestors not laugh at a generation of horseless men? I laugh at all of us.
- Everything is exactly as it should be in that it is arranged in anticipation of the ultimate restitution of all things.
- This world is full of games I’d rather lose than play.
- As you grow older you recognise that 'interesting people' are only truly substantial insofar as they keep the general human virtues well. Nobody can live up to their facade in perpetuity but our plain depths can be better than our superficial mystery.
- Suppose the apocalypse were not around the corner and instead there was a return to reality as it was known. Suppose our towers of Babel were to collapse and ordinary grass grow over them. Then this would seem indeed the strangest time, stranger even than it seems already.
- Avoid people with a romantic sense of tragedy unless you want to be cast as a character in their life’s production of Hamlet.
- I regret all of my cruelty and none of my kindness. It is that simple.
- I call life an inherited debt that cannot be paid. I call tapirs Snickers pigs.
- Modern Europeans are not self-hating, but grandiose, and take pride in being the only people cosmopolitan enough to abolish themselves.
- I don't feel nostalgia, but I do feel a kind of piteous tenderness towards the past. Snow falls on the old memory, and blankets things with a kind of virginal innocence, even if those times were unhappy and those things were sordid.
- Remember always that everything you do makes everyone you know more likely to do the same. Don't do anything you'd hate to see a loved one do, lest you make them do it.
- Do you ever feel like you've lost the right to be yourself, and that you have to be someone else as punishment?