Ernest Dimnet Quotes
You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.
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How are we to reconcile our supreme duty towards memory with the need to forget that is essential to life? No generation has had to confront this paradox with such urgency. The survivors wanted to communicate everything to the living: the victim's solitude and sorrow, the tears of mothers driven to madness, the prayers of the doomed beneath a fiery sky.
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Any part of the human body can only be explained in reference to the whole body. And any part of the Bible can only be properly explained in reference to the whole Bible.
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When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.
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Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.
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Those who defeat others are strong, those who defeat themselves are mighty.
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But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.
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Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.
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I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.
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I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude.
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Even in his damaged state, he could light up a room. He could fill it with a presence that was large and rare.
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Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.
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Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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I've been thinking lately about immortality. What it means to be remembered, what I want to be remembered for, certain questions concerning memory and fame. I love watching old movies. I watch the faces of long-dead actors on the screen, and I think about how they'll never truly die. I know that's a cliché but it happens to be true. Not just the famous ones who everyone knows, the Clark Gables, the Ava Gardners, but the bit players, the maid carrying the tray, the butler, the cowboys in the bar, the third girl from the left in the nightclub. They're all immortal to me. First we only want to be seen, but once we're seen, that's not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.
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You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.
