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The egotism of wisdom: to burn all that is pettily, painfully, stupidly selfish in the fire of love of spiritual vision and freedom.

— Vilhelm Ekelund The Second Light (1986)

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Whose is the world? Whose is thought? His who loves them.

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Everything great has already been said. But the person who knows how to stimulate his soul with the magnificence of it is always something new.

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What has been postponed by reason of road and effort is well postponed.

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The Jesuit principle: withdrawal from the world—in order to act on the world—was frequently also the principle of genius.

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The artist and the poet have the facility for mistaking pure languor for meditative peace and strength. True meditation "rests" in swiftness.

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