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Where there is an experience of pain, the perception of the insufficiency of external, ephemeral, temporary pleasures immediately grows, and the desire for something that transcends the contingent grows.

— 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.

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

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.

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