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Faith... is the art of

Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.
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Miracles do not, in fact,

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
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Part of every misery is,

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
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I sometimes wander whether all

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
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The real problem is not

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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Courage is not simply one

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy,

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
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It is only when you

It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.
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The salvation of a single

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
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It is hard to have

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
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