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Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a secondperhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the relaxed brain is like writing on water; there is every chance that on the morrow there will be no slightest trace left of any happening.

Antonin Sertillanges
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When we want to awaken a thought in anyone, what are the means at our disposal? One only, to produce in him by word and sign states of sensibility and of imagination, emotion and memory in which he will discover our idea and make it his own.

Antonin Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
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Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our new ideas, keeps up our ardor, and inflames our enthusiasm.

Antonin Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
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The good is the brother of the true

it will help its brother.
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The reward of a work is to have produced it

the reward of effort is to have grown by it.
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