"The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The return into paradise, the homecoming, depends on him penetrating the veils of morality to glimpse again the lineaments of lost beauty."

-- John Carroll

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“I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.”
“My only goal was to make the largest profit possible for my employer. I was caught in a spiral that - with the support of my bosses - continued to lead up and up.”

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“I'm kind of an insomniac and watch TV late at night.”

Source : "Style & Substance: Monica Keena". Interview with Farrah Weinstein, nypost.com. September 17, 2000.
“Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn't it? We can't be sinning in so many different ways if we are being quiet before God. Silence nourishes patience, charity, discretion.”
“A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.”
“I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.”
“A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord.”
“I am anti-social and have a dark personality. I have no redeeming qualties and nothing to offer, therefore I could never have what I wanted”

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