To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life. (Czeslaw Milosz, Road-side Dog, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999, p. 60)
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To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life. (Czeslaw Milosz, Road-side Dog, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999, p. 60)
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Severe, austere and deeply moving, Xavier Beauvois’s film about monks threatened by fundamentalists is one of the year’s highlights. “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.” The speaker is Luc, an elderly Catholic monk played by 79-year-old Michael Lonsdale, quoting a pensée of Pascal. He…
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And now we are witnessing a transformation. A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death – the huge solace of thinking that our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders are not going to be judged… [but] all religions recognize that our deeds are imperishable (Czeslaw Milosz, The Discreet Charms of Nihilism, The…
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23. Pe când era Isus în Ierusalim, la praznicul Paştelor, mulţi au crezut în Numele Lui; căci vedeau semnele pe care le făcea. 24. Dar Isus nu Se încredea în ei, pentru că îi cunoştea pe toţi. 25. Şi n-avea trebuinţă să-I facă cineva mărturisiri despre nici un om, fiindcă El însuşi ştia ce este…



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