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“You know, Theo, one of the hardest things to admit is that we weren't loved when we needed it most. It's a terrible feeling, the pain of not being loved.”

Book:The Silent Patient

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“But it is impossible for someone who was not abused to become an abuser. No one is born evil. As Winnicott put it, "A baby cannot hate the mother, without the mother first hating the baby." As babies, we are innocent sponges, blank slates, with only the most basic needs present: to eat, shit, love, and be loved. But something goes wrong, depending on the circumstances into which we are born,”

The Silent Patient

Author:Alex Michaelides

“It's a shame you didn't know her then. She was the most interesting person I've ever met. Most people aren't alive, you know, not really sleepwalking their way through life. But Alicia was so intensely alive.... It was hard to take your eyes off her." Jean-Felix turned his head back to the painting and gazed at Alicia's naked body. "So beautiful.”

The Silent Patient

Author:Alex Michaelides

“Those who believe rumors are as wrong as those who spread rumors.”

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“Gregor flushed as he went on: "The entire content of the Confesions could be put into one single sentence in the book: when Augustine addresses God, saying: 'Thou hast made us for Thyself and our heart is unquiet until it rests in Thee.' This sentence, my lords and friends, is immortal. It contains the very heart of religion.”

Religion Biography St Augustine

Author:Louis de Wohl The Restless Flame

“Some would argue for the third possibility on the grounds that, if there were a complete set of laws, that would infringe God's freedom to change his mind and intervene in the world. It's a bit like the old paradox: Can God make a stone so heavy that he can't lift it? But the idea that God might want to change his mind is an example of the fallacy, pointed out by St. Augustine, of imagining God as a being existing in time: time is a property only of the universe that God created. Presumably, he knew what he intended when he set it up!”

God Creator Physics Paradox St Augustine

Book:A Brief History of Time

Source: A Brief History of Time

“Stay away from St. Augustine: skillfully formulated subjectivity is not theology, not by a long shot, and it's harmful to young souls. Nothing but journalism with a few dialectical features. You won't take offense at this advice?" "No," I said, "I shall immediately go and throw my St. Augustine into the fire." "That's right," he said almost jubilantly, "into the fire with him. God bless you." I was on the point of saying Thank you, but it didn't seem appropriate, so I merely hung up and wiped the sweat off my face.”

Theology Dialogue St Augustine

Book:The Clown

Source: The Clown

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