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Beneath the surface of formless matter is the firm ideal structure of a rebirth that has, in the city of God, its model of beauty and light.

— Giorgio La Pira

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Young people are like swallows, they go towards spring.

Bread, and therefore work, is sacred; the house is sacred, one does not touch one with impunity: this is not Marxism, it is the Gospel.

Men are waiting; they judge the truth of religion according to its fruitfulness in social life.

Christianity everything is a dream: the sweetest dream of a God made man for man to become God.

The seasons are not made by the farmer; they come, and he helps them. They all orient themselves towards summer, towards the days of maturation. This is what history does.

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Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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