“Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.”
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“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.”
“Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.”
“Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.”
“Conscience is harder than our enemies, knows more, accuses with more nicety.”
“There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.”