Disaster is private, in its way, as love is. - Nadine Gordimer

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The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”, is communion with the Orthodox Churches.

Nadine Gordimer

Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.

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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.

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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

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The facts are always less than what really happened.

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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.

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