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" The myth of my solitude makes me laugh. "

Pope Benedict XVI

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" The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away from God, who lives away from what is good, is turning his life toward wrath. "

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