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Of all trees, birches are perhaps the most like grass. They are small, pliant, slender; and if they promise a kind

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 Of all trees, birches are perhaps the most like grass. They are small, pliant, slender; and if they promise a kind

Apr 20,2021

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We do not live in the first chapter of Genesis. We live – if one follows the biblical sequence of events – after the Fall.

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 We do not live in the first chapter of Genesis. We live – if one follows the biblical sequence of events – after the Fall.

Mar 03,2021

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Nobody should presume that evil has no spiritual power. Indeed, one of the principal errors of the two centuries concerned

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 Nobody should presume that evil has no spiritual power. Indeed, one of the principal errors of the two centuries concerned

Feb 18,2021

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Love bestows innocence. It has nothing to forgive. The person loved is not the same as the person seen crossing the street

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 Love bestows innocence. It has nothing to forgive. The person loved is not the same as the person seen crossing the street

Feb 17,2021

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The capacity to fall in love is now thought of as natural and universal — and as a passive capacity. (Love

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 The capacity to fall in love is now thought of as natural and universal — and as a passive capacity. (Love

Jan 24,2021

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Works of genius have this intrinsic property, that even when they give a perfect likeness of the nullity of things, even

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 Works of genius have this intrinsic property, that even when they give a perfect likeness of the nullity of things, even

Jan 23,2021

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