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. . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)

The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is ...

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The Song of Bernadette

We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go.

Which road, which road did you takeThat brought you here at last?No road, no road did I take.I leape...

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Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.

The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady ...

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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

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Franz Werfel

Novelist

Born: 1890-09-10

Died: 1945-08-26

Franz Viktor Werfel (10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet who wrote in German.More