"Now [Mike] Gove has destroyed Boris Johnson."

-- James Kirkup

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“We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.”

Source : "Thoughts in Solitude". Book by Thomas Merton, 1958.
“We can love religion as we need rituals, but The Holy Spirit is a bird, free to fly and land where it likes. We don't actually need 'religion' in order to have a relationship with The Holy Spirit. Too many wars an violence over religion.We need to see it's all the same spirit and we are part of that spirit so we shouldn't be fighting over what name we call it. It's a free bird.”
“An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.”
“It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.”
“To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.”
“Her vice takes hold of her again, but she still refrains until some moment when, gnawed by some hideous caprice, she comes aground like a mournful wreck ruined by lust, in the midst of her own banal, perfidious pollution.”
“And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.”
“Our words must seem to be inevitable.”

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