"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist.
Children already know that dragons exist.
Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."

"I have experienced on my body and on my soul that I needed sin very much, I needed lust, the desire for possessions, vanity, and needed the most shameful despair, in order to learn how to give up all resistance, in order to learn how to love the world, in order to stop comparing it to some world I wished, I imagined, some kind of perfection I hade made up, but to leave it as it is and to love it and to enjoy being a part of it."

"- Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
- That depends a good deal on where you want to get to’, said the Cat.
- I don’t much care where’ said Alice.
- Then it doesn’t matter which way you go’ said the Cat."

"A man came across three masons who were working at chipping chunks of granite from large blocks.
The man asked the first what it was that he was doing.
“I’m hammering the rock” - he answered.
Then the man asked the second what it was that he was doing.
He answered: “I’m molding this block of rock so that it can be used to construct a wall.”
Then the man asked the third one.
The mason answered: “I’m building a cathedral."

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