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I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier. . . In this version, there were no formulas, no set phrases that promised us safe passage across the abyss. There was only our tattered trust that the Spirit who had given us life would not leave us in the wilderness without offering us life again.

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To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner pleasure.

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If letters did not exist, what dark depressions would come over one! When one has been worrying about something and wants to tell a certain person about it, what a relief it is to put it all down in a letter! Still greater is one's joy when a reply arrives. At that moment a letter really seems like an elixir of life.

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There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked.

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A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.

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In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.

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One is telling a story about old times when someone breaks in with a little detail that he happens to know, implying that one's own version is inaccurate — disgusting behavior!

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