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Tears and Saints (1995)
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As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.
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A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
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Love of the absolute engenders a predilection for self-destruction. Hence the passion for monasteries and brothels. Cells and women, in both cases. Weariness with life fares well in the shadow of whores and saintly women.
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Heroes abound at the dawn of civilizations, during pre-Homeric and Gothic epochs, when people, not having yet experienced spiritual torture, satisfy their thirst for renunciation through a derivative: heroism.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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Born:
April 8, 1911
Died:
June 21, 1995
(aged 84)
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