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1 " The hopelessness of life is like a weak fire, that can only be extinguished using the fire extinguisher called hope. "
2 " And so they easily suppose that this truce, owing to helplessness, is victory and that they have convinced the other man. But in fact, instead of winning him over, they have merely applied a kind of shock therapy — only it was never 'therapy.' They have smothered the first little flame of a man’s own spiritual life and a first shy question with the fire extinguisher of their erudition. By such performances a person can really be smothered and strangled! "
― , A Little Exercise for Young Theologians
