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In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to ea...

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But why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?""It is required of every man," the Gh...

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I believe - I daily find it proved - that we can get nothing in this world worth keeping, not so muc...

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Mephistopheles: Within the bowels of these elements,Where we are tortured and remain forever.Hell ha...

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Purgatory surpasses heaven and hell in poetry, because it represents a future and the others do not.

We must have taken a wrong turn turning somewhere.""Where, Purgatory?" said Dozy. "We're in Hell.

God works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform, as Reenie used to say. Could it be that Myra is...

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The myth of purgatory is an allegory, a projection, from the present on to the future. This is why p...

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N.T. WrightFor All the Saints: Remembering the Christians Departed

In particular, we must take account of the well-known and striking saying of Jesus to the dying brig...

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N.T. WrightFor All the Saints: Remembering the Christians Departed

Since both the departed saints and we ourselves are in Christ, we share with them in the 'communion ...

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The Enlightenment, finally, invented progressive 'history' as an inner-worldly purgatory in order to...

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