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Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need

Vocation Deep Gladness
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The place to which God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

God Place Deep Gladness
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Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.

Process Reveal God Room
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Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.

Faith Nothing Guide Grasps
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Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.
Sin Grace Tragedy Comedy.
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He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.

Carve Place Grace Born
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Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed

Words Deep Hate
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There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about any more than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks or bring about your own birth.

Deserve Taste Raspberries Cream
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What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.

Found Death Life Scarcely
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One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it.

Character Complacent Contemplate Even
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In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.

Antiquity Desire Love Might
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.

Against Characteristic Constant Continuity
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

Accepted Attitude Because Beginning
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.

Analysis Delay Dynamic Means
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Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.

Accomplice Am Aware Call
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?

Also Attribute Feelings Guide
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In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension.
Alert Awaits Choose Close
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One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Another Best Contemporary Contemporary Life
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When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

Affair Affairs Because Disappointment
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Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Another Every Facts Gets
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Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Burn Find Inside Joy
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Challenging Come Deeper Find
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I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

Himself I Think Job Live
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

About Consciousness Heroic Our
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Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

Able Attainment Deny Flatten
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Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
Affirmation Beginning Delusion Discipline
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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Door Good Good IdeaI Dea
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Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Better Easier More People
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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Design Future Happiness Postpone
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If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Chances Design Else Fall
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You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Cannot Change Destination Direction
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Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Awareness Create Food Light
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The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

Aware Could Give Hurt
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It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Determines Direction Go Sails
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Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Great Great Joy Greatness Himself
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It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Cannot Decisions Fence Get
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Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Desire Loses Sense Urgency
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For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.

Hipsterism Codes Social Originality
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Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.

Cinema Thankless Industry Appear
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Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.

Chorus Discord Does Even
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.

Nature DNA IMAX Redefined
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I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.
Design Costumes Movies
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Even More MoreAndMore Poetry
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An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.

Author Censorship Effective Indifference
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Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.

Cult Future Genre Harmony
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A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.

Aims Attitude Defined Future
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

Abrupt Divides Each Geography
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We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide.

Across Cultural Descent Distant
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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
God Worshipping Idealized Yourself
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
Faith Primary Function Believing
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