Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.

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"Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow."

- W.H. Auden

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"In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag."

- W.H. Auden

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"Between friends, differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality."

- W.H. Auden

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"The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise, it’s not worth the trouble."

- W.H. Auden

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

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"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

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"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

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"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

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