Bread and Wine
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“On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture.”
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“How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.”
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“To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.”
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“Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.”
“Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”
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“The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.”
“No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.”