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He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest. ↗

— Abu Bakr

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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before. ↗

— Christian Bale

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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

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If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

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The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

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The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not. ↗

— John Dewey

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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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