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We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

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No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.

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Christ is God or He is the world's greatest liar and imposter.

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The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.

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We are all called to be saints, St. Paul says, and we might as well get over our bourgeois fear of the name. We might also get used to recognizing the fact that there is some of the saint in all of us.

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There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
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Born: November 8, 1897
Died: November 29, 1980 (aged 83)
Bio: Dorothy Day, Obl.S.B., was an American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert.
Known for:
  1. The Long Loneliness
  2. Loaves and fishes (1963)
  3. The duty of delight
  4. Peter Maurin
  5. The eleventh virgin (1924)
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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

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I have a heart with room for every joy.

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Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

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A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

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