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An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.
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Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
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A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.
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Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit
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A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.
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With my intellect I see cause for nothing but pessimism and even despair. But I can't settle for what my intellect tells me. That's not all of it...There are still stars which move in ordered and beautiful rhythm. There are still people in this world who keep promises... That's enough to keep my heart optimistic no matter how pessimistic my mind.
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When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.
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It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.
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Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.
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