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• ‘Poetry is written with tears, novels with blood, and history with invisible ink,’ said the cardinal, as he spread poison on the knife-edge by the light of a candelabra.
• ‘It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives, or the absence of meaning.
• We think we understand a song’s lyrics, but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music.’
• There is nothing in the path of life that we don’t already know before we started. Nothing important is learned, it is simply remembered.’