I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.
James McGreeveyAbout author
- Author's profession: Politician
- Nationality: american
- Born: August 6, 1957
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But can I really will anything? At this moment I feel the pleasure of being stone, the sun warms me, the wind makes acceptable this adjustment of my body, I have no intention of ceasing to be a stone. Why? Because I like it. So then I too am slave to a passion, which advises me against wanting freely its opposite. However, willing, I could will. And yet I do not. How much freer am I than a stone?
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Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions? the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to have them in order to lose them, the sadness of having had them, the intellectual shame of having had them knowing that they would have to end this way.
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