February 2012
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Because he doesn't know how to love...
Claudia: I don't understand. He meets a girl that can give him a new life and he pushes her away?
Guido: Because he no longer believes in it.
Claudia: Because he doesn't know how to love.
Guido: Because it isn't true that a woman can change a man.
Claudia: Because he doesn't know how to love.
Guido: And above all because I don't feel like telling another pile of lies.
Claudia: Because he doesn't know how to love.
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“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me...”
– C.S. Lewis // A Grief Observed
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“The desperate need to be loved can keep one from love itself. True intimacy is...”
– Belden C. Lane // The Solace of Fierce Landscapes
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“In nature, one never really sees a thing for the first time until one has seen...”
– Joseph Wood Krutch // The Desert Year
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“It is, to describe it figuratively, as if a writer were to make a slip of the...”
– Soren Kierkegaard // The Sickness Unto Death // Kierkegaard’s description of the self’s rejection of the self.
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“There comes a moment when the children who have been playing burglars hush...”
– C.S. Lewis // Miracles
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“Love is not itself
Until it knows it is frail
And can go wrong
It does not...”
– Thomas Merton // From one of Merton’s “Night Letters,” written to the nurse with whom he had fallen in love in the summer of 1966.
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Nothing's a Gift // Wislawa Szymborska
Nothing’s a gift, everything is borrowed. I’m drowning in debts up to my ears. I will be forced to pay for myself with myself, to give my life for my life. It has been appointed that the heart must be returned, and the liver, too, and each individual finger. It’s too late to cancel the contract. Debts will be extracted from me along with my skin. I wander this earth amid a throng...
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January 2012
21 posts
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“I have often said that the sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does...”
– Blaise Pascal // Pensées
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“For the garden is the only place there is, but
you will not find it
Until you...”
– W.H. Auden // “For the Time Being”
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“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein // Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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Long Live The Smiths' 'Complete Works' // NPR →
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“Geography is simply a visible form of theology.”
– Jon Levenson // Sinai and Zion: An Entry Into the Jewish Bible
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“The grotesque is a game with the absurd, in a sense that the grotesque artist...”
– Philip Thomson // The Grotesque
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