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“It's a nice big fat philosophical question, about: how do you get through? Sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. But the grandeur of life is that attempt. It's not about that solution. It is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances. It's that, that makes it elegant. Good is just more interesting, more complex, more demanding. Evil is silly, it may be horrible, but at the same time it's not a compelling idea. It's predictable. It needs a tuxedo, it needs a headline, it needs blood, it needs fingernails. It needs all that costume in order to get anybody's attention. But the opposite, which is survival, blossoming, endurance, those things are just more compelling intellectually if not spiritually, and they certainly are spiritually. This is a more fascinating job. We are already born, we are going to die. So you have to do something interesting that you respect in between.”
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“Solo hay un camino para asegurarse nunca ser engañado, y ese es el de creerlo todo amorosamente.”
― Works of Love
― Works of Love
“What is it to inhabit a world?
How does one make the world one's own?
What is it to lose one's world?”
― Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary
How does one make the world one's own?
What is it to lose one's world?”
― Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary

“Pues amar a Dios significa amarse de verdad a uno mismo; ayudar a otro ser humano a que ame a Dios es amar a otro ser humano; ser ayudado por otro ser humano para amar a Dios significa ser amado.”
― Works of Love
― Works of Love

“Hablando en términos humanos, amar es seguir la representación que el amado se haya formado acerca de lo que es el amor, y haciéndolo uno será amado.”
― Works of Love
― Works of Love

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