I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.
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Zum Autor"It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then."
"The gods, not out of mercy, have made me strong."
"The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own."
"If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will - that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings - then we may take it (that) it is worth paying."
"Now the proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator - to enact intellectually, volitionally and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature when it does so, it is good and happy."
"But of course these conjectures as to why God does what He does are probably of no more value than my dog's ideas of what I am up to when I sit and read."