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- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: american
- Born: August 3, 1924
- Died: June 21, 2003
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It is because the will has no power to bring about salvation that the idea of secular morality is an absurdity. What is called morality only depends on the will in what is, so to speak, its most muscular aspect. Religion on the contrary corresponds to desire, and it is desire that saves...To long for God and to renounce all the rest, that alone can save.
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