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«To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.»
Author: George Bataille
(Librarian, Writer)
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equivalent, existence of God, including, in harmony, the existence of God, unimaginable, willed
«Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.»
Author: Lawrence Durrell
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Journey
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«Out of disbelief [in God] we have impudently assumed that all of life is now subject to our own will. And the disasters that have come from willing what cannot be willed have not at all brought us to some modesty about our presumptions.»
«In great things it is enough even to have willed.»
Author: Propertius
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willed
«It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.»
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
(Writer)
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be born, calamity, exploits, self-will, self-willed, sensibly, ugliness, willed
«Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end.»
«I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
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accidental, brought, decay, defeated, differently, drawing, expected, Great Wall, here and there, How does, impulse, invisible, iron, one iron, series, take heart, wall, willed, working
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