"Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee."

-- Robert Herrick

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“It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.”
“The Industrial Revolution was another one of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.”
“We are the archenemy of our own salvation, and the Shepherd must fight first of all with us - for us.”

Source : Romano Guardini (2012). “The Lord”, p.162, Regnery Publishing
“Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.”
“Release what no longer serves you to create a space for that which does. And yes, sometimes this even means people.”
“And sure enough,the youth in question was not his usual dapper self. His face was puffy, his eyes red and wild; his shirt(distressingly unbuttoned)hung over his trousers in sloppy fashion. All very out of charactar: Mandrake was normally defined by his rigid self-control. Somthing seemed to have stripped all that away. Well, the poor lad was emotionally brittle.He needed sympathetic handling. "You're a mess," I sneered "You've lost it big time. What's happened? All the guilt and self-loathing suddenly get to you? It can't just be that someone else called me, surly?”
“Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.”
“Riding in another drop, ain't talking Enterprise They try to see me, get diabetes from humble pie”

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