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He wept on account of his helplessness, his terrible loneliness, the cruelty of man, the cruelty of God, and the absence of God.
“How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!”
― Lourdes
― Lourdes
“These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here”
― Work
― Work
“An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.”
― Truth
― Truth
“God turned his face the other way, and the earth was in darkness. "An eclipse of God... an eclipse of God”
― The Fratricides
― The Fratricides
“He wept for truth which was dead, for heaven which was void. Beyond the marble walls and gleaming jewelled altars, the huge plaster Christ had no longer a single drop of blood in its veins.”
― Pot Luck
― Pot Luck
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