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  1. The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

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  2. Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity…

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  3. Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

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