The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling. - Francois Mauriac

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Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do.

Francois Mauriac

The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.

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I believe that only poetry counts. . . A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

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The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do not know where they have laid Him.

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