Carlo Levi famous quotes
06-15-2025
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The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls, of good and evil, of morality and redemption.
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To this shadowy land, that knows neither sin nor redemption from sin, where evil is not moral but is only the pain residing forever in earthly things, Christ did not come. Christ stopped at Eboli.
-- Carlo Levi
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Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
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Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
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May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.
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Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.
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A divided heart loses both worlds.
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The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
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I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.
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It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri.
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Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries
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From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.
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