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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other ...more

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We can only learn to love by loving.

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

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The past and present are after all so close, almost one, as if time were an artificial teasing out of a material which longs to join, to interpenetrat...more

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Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

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I know how much you grieve over those who are under your care: those you try to help and fail, those you cannot help. Have faith in God and remember t...more

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The past and the present are after all so close, so almost one, as if time were an artificial teasing out of a material which longs to join, to interp...more

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But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer.