Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... smile - at human vanity and inconsistencies . But Voltaire is a killer whose motto is : " It is ridicule that kills . " He sneers more than he smiles , something which I think is plain from Houdon's remarkable statue of Voltaire now in ...
... smile - at human vanity and inconsistencies . But Voltaire is a killer whose motto is : " It is ridicule that kills . " He sneers more than he smiles , something which I think is plain from Houdon's remarkable statue of Voltaire now in ...
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... smile is a smile is a smile , but only loving , smiling eyes can touch the ache or the desolation of the truly ill . Good cheer has some limited value , as good intentions always have . But the laughter of desperation can destroy ...
... smile is a smile is a smile , but only loving , smiling eyes can touch the ache or the desolation of the truly ill . Good cheer has some limited value , as good intentions always have . But the laughter of desperation can destroy ...
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... smile as you open your valise at " Customs " and say , " Noth- ing to declare . " Whether state or municipal , secular or religious , the big - little world of the shiny - white hospital which you are en- tering occupies but a few acres ...
... smile as you open your valise at " Customs " and say , " Noth- ing to declare . " Whether state or municipal , secular or religious , the big - little world of the shiny - white hospital which you are en- tering occupies but a few acres ...
Contents
Preface Foreword Poem Sonnet to Death Chapter I The Ferries at Bayhead Death as Natural Transition | 1 |
Last Things First Necessity of a Point of View | 11 |
God on Trial The Problem of Evil | 19 |
Copyright | |
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