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When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one way or another, even though he knows nothing about the visible church. His kind of Christianity may not be socially desirable, but will be real in the sight of God.
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If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference.
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I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.
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[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.
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The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
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Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.
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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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