It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in.

Evelyn Waugh
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  1. After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.

  2. The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him.

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  5. Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom.

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