“I see that I have begun to understand too much. And it doesn't do for man to taste of the tree of knowledge of good and evil…”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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“It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“Silence is the snare of the demon, and the more one keeps silent, the more terrifying the demon becomes; but silence is also the mutual understanding between the Deity and the individual.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.”

― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

“The true God has never yet smiled upon a person for his charity or virtues, but only for the sake of Christ's merits.”

― Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

“When I see the blindness and the wretchedness of man, when I regard the whole silent universe, and man without light, left to himself, and, as it were, lost in this corner of the universe, without knowing who has put him there, what he has come...”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.”

― George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

“Ill deeds is doubled with an evil word.”

― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“You know, it’s quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don’t do it.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill. But such falls and betrayals, alas, have happened before.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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