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All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

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Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.

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It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.

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We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.

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Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

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The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

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Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.

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...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

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If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

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Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.

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There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey.

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In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

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A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.

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Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

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Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.

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The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.

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Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

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