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“Every weakness contains within itself a strength.”
“The earth is not just for the clever and the strong.”
“The seeds of salvation are buried in every act of evil.”
“Lord, why are you silent? Why are you always silent...?”
“A man who wields a pen has to be accountable to society.”
“No matter what the circumstances, no man can completely escape from vanity.”
“I don't want to die in darkness any thicker than this. I want to bring some kind of resolution in my life.”
“I, too, stood on the sacred image. For a moment this foot was on his face. It was on the face of the man who has been ever in my thoughts, on the face that was before me on the mountains, in my wan...”
“« My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast ! I will sing and make melody ! Awake my soul ! Awake, O harp and lyre ! I will awake the dawn. » In childhood these words had always risen in ...”
“Over the years I have forged intimate familial ties with these characters, who are reflections of a portion of myself. Consequently, even a character who appeared only once in a short story waits n...”
“True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.”
“At the core of her senseless actions, she vaguely perceived that she yearned for something. A something that would provide her with a sure sense of fulfillment. But she could not fathom what that s...”
“I do not believe that God has given us this trial to not purpose. I know that the day will come when we will clearly understand why this persecution with all it's sufferings has been bestowed upon ...”
“Not all men are handsome and strong. There are some who are cowards from birth. There are some who are weak by nature. There are even some who cry easily. But for such a man, a man both weak and co...”
“I did pray. I kept on Praying. But prayer did nothing to alleviate their suffering.”
“The reason why darkness terrifying for us, he reflected, is that there remains in us the instinctive fear the primitive man had when there was as yet no light.”
“The sound of darkness was certainly intricately linked to the sense of being alone but unrelated to this was the sound of the palpitations of men and women experiencing the sense of utter solitude....”
“Behind the depressing silence of the sea, the silence of God …. the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent.”
“To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today's pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the other fellow, was equivalent to being a fool, wasn't it?”
“In order to pile weakness upon weakness he was trying to drag others along the path that he himself had walked.”
