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Human nature is intractable stuff, hard jagged stuff, the kind of stuff that dreams are wrecked on.

— Elizabeth Goudge The White Witch (1958)

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A sense of identity is the gift of love, and only love can give it.

The Dean's Watch (1960)

There is no greater tyranny than that of social custom.

The Dean's Watch (1960)

Life is a reaching out for something or someone. That is its definition.

The Scent of Water (1963)

The human desire to be understood is never quite sincere. It is on our own terms that we desire to be understood, not on the terms of truth.

The Child from the Sea (1970)

Civilization is another word for respect for life.

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Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

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Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification.

Simone Weil

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