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Ultimately, and in a nutshell, it is to escape death that we invented language, art, philosophy, and politics.

— Eugenio Borgna

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Nothing gives a person the same strength to resist adversity and pain as Christian, Pascalian hope.

In the term dying, living also remains “alive”; in the word death, life disappears.

The experience of infinity, in all its forms, brings us closer to God.

Fairy tales teach us that fear should not be locked away in an inaccessible closet inside ourselves, but felt, experienced, and confronted.

An economic crisis, however serious, never has such a profound impact on the individual conscience as the desolate lack of meaning that characterizes depression.

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