God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Saint Augustine
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- What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
- Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
- Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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