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1 " How could I permit my conversion to be reduced to politics and identity, when in fact it had been sparked by the opposite idea: that there is such a thing as truth, truth that is eternal and universal and isn’t circumscribed by politics, history, genetics, language, geography, or identity? "
― Sohrab Ahmari , From Fire, by Water: My Journey to the Catholic Faith
2 " I longed for some cosmic and moral absolutes. Yet the only absolute command that my father handed down to me was: “Be yourself.” It was maddening. Who was this “self” dwelling inside me, to whom I owed such fidelity? My father wouldn’t say. "