"Entre le ro" le de sauveur et celui de complice du bourreau,j'aper c° ois tout au plus l'incommode emploi de victime. Between the role of saviour and that of butcher's accomplice, all I see left for you is the unsavoury role of victim."

-- Stephanie Crayencour

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“But I believe the words entered me and changed me and still work in me. The words eat me and sustain me. And when I'm dead and in a box in the dark dark ground, and all my various souls have died and I am nothing but insensible bones, something in the marrow will still feel yearning, desire persisting beyond flesh.”
“It's about doing something larger than yourself. It's about serving this world, helping others.”
“Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.”
“St. Seraphim, like Francis of Assisi, talked to animals. One day two nuns saw him deep in conversation with a bear. The bears of the Russian forests are very ferocious, and the two women were terrified. But Seraphim reassured them and showed them that he who is sanctified lives in peace with all creation, just as Adam did before the Fall.”
“A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.”
“It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does not come from a voice ï¿½out thereï¿½ calling me to be something I am not. It comes from a voice ï¿½in hereï¿½ calling me to be the person I was born to be, to fulfill the original selfhood given me at birth by God.”
“One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.”

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